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Bonus: Preventing an AI-Related Catastrophe

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How to Control the Objectives of an AI System

For modern ML systems, we don't get to explicitly state a systems' objectives. Instead, we reward or punish a system in a training environment so that it learns on its own. This raises a number of difficulties, one of which is goal misgeneralization. We'll look at a more specific example of how problems with proxies could lead to an existential catastrophe here.

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