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#81 - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Is There a System That Has Different Goals Than You Want It to Have?

Systems have incentives to hide the fact that their goals diverge from the ones you'd like them to have. And so it will hide that, and you wont rally notice that mas optimization is like an issu until it's too late. You should probably see some systems doing this thing, like hiding the fact that they hae different goals. Notice this before you'r at the point where now things are just so, so competent thatth ato, say, destroyed a world, or something like that.

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