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Bonus: Preventing an AI-Related Catastrophe

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Planning in the Real World

We've already produced systems that are very good at carrying out specific tasks. We're not sure whether these systems are producing plans in pursuit of goals per se, because we're not exactly sure what it means to have goals. But since they consistently plan in ways that achieve goals, it seems like they have goals in some sense. Some existing systems seem to actually represent goals as part of their neural networks. That said, planning in the real world, instead of games, is much more complex and to date we're not aware of any unambiguous examples of goal-directed planning systems.

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