Here’s a “demo” that it’s possible for a large AGI development project to decide that even TRYING to make nice docile AGIs is ALREADY overkill, because AGIs will just automatically be nice, again for reasons that don’t stand up to scrutiny. www.lesswrong.com/posts/ixZLTm... 5/16 - ThreadSky

stevebyrnes.bsky.social • 73 days ago

Here’s a “demo” that it’s possible for a large AGI development project to decide that even TRYING to make nice docile AGIs is ALREADY overkill, because AGIs will just automatically be nice, again for reasons that don’t stand up to scrutiny. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ixZLTmFfnKRbaStA5/book-review-a-thousand-brains-by-jeff-hawkins#Does_machine_intelligence_pose_any_risk_for_humanity_ 5/16

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stevebyrnes.bsky.social•73 days ago

(And here’s a “demo” that at least one powerful tech company executive might be fine with AGI wiping out humanity anyway.) https://observer.com/2024/06/argument-elon-musk-larry-page-ai/ 6/16

stevebyrnes.bsky.social•73 days ago

Here’s a “demo” that if you give random people access to an AI, one of them might ask it to destroy humanity, just to see what would happen. Granted, I think this person had justified confidence that this particular AI would fail to destroy humanity… https://decrypt.co/126122/meet-chaos-gpt-ai-tool-destroy-humanity 7/16

stevebyrnes.bsky.social•73 days ago

…but here is a “demo” that it’s possible for people to do experiments that threaten the whole world, despite a long track record of direct evidence that this exact thing is a threat to the whole world, wildly out of proportion to its benefit, and that governments may even fund them. 8/16

stevebyrnes.bsky.social•73 days ago

Here is a “demo” that, given a tradeoff between AI transparency (English-language chain-of-thought) and AI capability (inscrutable chain-of-thought but the results are better), many people will choose the latter, and pat themselves on the back for a job well done. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769 9/16

stevebyrnes.bsky.social•73 days ago

Every week we get more “demos” that, if next-token prediction is insufficient to make powerful autonomous AGIs that can accomplish long-term goals via out-of-the-box strategies, then people will keep searching for other approaches that CAN do that. 10/16

stevebyrnes.bsky.social•73 days ago

Here is a “demo” that it’s possible for companies to ignore or suppress obvious future problems when they would interfere with immediate profits. 11/16

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