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Advanced AI Systems Could Be Dangerously Misaligned

A planning system that has a goal will also develop instrumental goals in quotes. These are things that, if they occur, make it easier to achieve an overall goal. A sufficiently advanced AI planning system would also include instrumental goals in its overall plans. With such advanced capabilities, these instrumental goals will not be out of reach. This means that, by default, advanced planning AI systems would have some worrying instrumental goals.

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