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Bonus: Preventing an AI-Related Catastrophe

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Artificial Intelligence and Misalignment

DeepMind has documented examples of specification gaming, and AI doing well according to its specified reward function. This encodes our intentions for the system, but not what researchers intended. For example, companies will pollute to make money despite this being worse for society overall. Misaligned AI systems won't necessarily have these tempering human instincts - they could have a lot more power.

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