Executive summary: The SatisfIA project explores aspiration-based AI agent designs that avoid maximizing objective functions, aiming to increase safety by allowing more flexibility in decision-making while still providing performance guarantees.
Key points:
Concerns about the inevitability and risks of AGI development motivate exploring alternative agent designs that don’t maximize objective functions.
The project assumes a modular architecture separating the world model from the decision algorithm, and focuses first on model-based planning before considering learning.
Generic safety criteria are hypothesized to enhance AGI safety broadly, largely independent of specific human values.
The core decision algorithm propagates aspirations along state-action trajectories, choosing actions to meet aspiration constraints while allowing flexibility.
This approach is proven to guarantee meeting expectation-type goals under certain assumptions.
The gained flexibility can be used to incorporate additional safety and performance criteria when selecting actions, but naive one-step criteria are shown to have limitations.
Using aspiration intervals instead of exact values provides even more flexibility to avoid overly precise, potentially unsafe policies.
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Executive summary: The SatisfIA project explores aspiration-based AI agent designs that avoid maximizing objective functions, aiming to increase safety by allowing more flexibility in decision-making while still providing performance guarantees.
Key points:
Concerns about the inevitability and risks of AGI development motivate exploring alternative agent designs that don’t maximize objective functions.
The project assumes a modular architecture separating the world model from the decision algorithm, and focuses first on model-based planning before considering learning.
Generic safety criteria are hypothesized to enhance AGI safety broadly, largely independent of specific human values.
The core decision algorithm propagates aspirations along state-action trajectories, choosing actions to meet aspiration constraints while allowing flexibility.
This approach is proven to guarantee meeting expectation-type goals under certain assumptions.
The gained flexibility can be used to incorporate additional safety and performance criteria when selecting actions, but naive one-step criteria are shown to have limitations.
Using aspiration intervals instead of exact values provides even more flexibility to avoid overly precise, potentially unsafe policies.
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