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Daniel Schmachtenberger: Ai Risks & The Metacrisis
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
The Dangers Associated With Misaligned Goals of AI Agents
The paperclip maximizer scenario, initially conceived by philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003, illustrates the potential dangers associated with misaligned goals of artificial general intelligence. Value alignment is the process of ensuring that an AGI shares our values and goals to prevent cataclysmic outcomes. The orthogonality thesis states that intelligence and goals can be independent, implying that a highly intelligent AGI can have arbitrary goals. Instrumental convergence refers to the phenomenon where diverse goals lead to similar instrumental behaviors like resource acquisition and self-preservation.
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