Claims / C-G7MMSH5PBC

Analytic

SYNERGY. Chapter 4 of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies removes the premise of the strongest argument for concentrated AI. "Only we should build it, because others might train it for the wrong stuff" assumes you get what you train for; Yudkowsky and Soares call that world "convenient for corporate executives to believe in", and say the factional allegiance of whoever ran the training does not determine what the AI wants: "It doesn't matter whether they're benevolent." If they are right, who owns a system is not the safety variable. What matters is whether its actual wants become visible to someone able to correct it while it is still weak, which favours many independent observers over one trusted owner. The same chapter bounds this: the wants do not irk users in training and stay "out of sight", so a record of ordinary outputs will not show them. Observers have to put bounded agents in front of new options, where a sucralose would show, and record what they choose.

Alignment dynamics

Evidence 6 passages

  • groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky

    This world of zero complications is also a world that's convenient for corporate executives to believe in when they argue that nobody else should be allowed to train an AI because they might choose to train it for the wrong stuff.

  • groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky

    as if the factional allegiance of whoever ran the gradient descent determined what the resulting AI wanted.

  • groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky

    They're not in control. It doesn't matter whether they're benevolent.

  • groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky

    many of these complications won't show up in obvious, undeniable ways, until after it's too late for humans to do anything about them.

  • groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky

    Any such preferences wouldn't pose a problem today in the form of irking users.

  • groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky

    Until then, these preferences are out of sight and out of mind, hidden in the inscrutable numbers.

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