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#63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance
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The Argument for a Single AI System
In hindsight, the book Super Intelligence or writing by LA as your cow ski that fed into that book. The books like Super Intelligence respond with this claim sometimes called the orthogonality thesis. This is just a claim that it's at least in principle possible to make an AI system which is very capable but tries to do things that no person would want it to do. And so putting this all together, there may be some AI system in the future that has really radical and unprecedented powers of the world. We can't assume that this AI system will behave in benign ways because at least it's physically possible for it to behave in ways which are harmful.
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