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#65 – Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI and Whether the X-Risk Case Holds Up

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The Economic Incentives for Maximizing the Number of Paper Clips in the World

There can be a big difference between telling an AI maximize the number of paper clips in the world, as opposed to telling an AI act like a really smart CEO of a paper clip company. And then that behavior can still spur a lot of like really useful actions,. But because you're asking it to kind of imitate, as you mentioned before, a smart human, it's still kind of bounds the types of actions that they would be likely to be doing in more sensible-ish looking ways.

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