I’m wondering about “crazy teenager builds misaligned APS system in a basement” scenarios and to what extent you see the considerations in this report as bearing on those.
To be a bit more precise: I’m thinking about worlds where “alignment is easy” for society at large (i.e. your claim 3 is not true), but building powerful AI is feasible even for people who are not interested in taking the slightest precautions, even those that would be recommended by ordinary self-interest. I think mostly about individuals or small groups rather than organizations.
I think these scenarios are distinct from misuse scenarios (which you mention below your report is not intended to cover), though the line is blurry. If someone who wanted to see enormous damage to the world built an AI with the intent of causing such damage, and was successful, I’d call that “misuse.” But I’m interested more in “crazy” than “omnicidal” here, where I don’t think it’s clear whether to call this “misuse” or not.
Maybe you see this as a pretty separate type of worry than what the report is intended to cover.
Thanks for this work!
I’m wondering about “crazy teenager builds misaligned APS system in a basement” scenarios and to what extent you see the considerations in this report as bearing on those.
To be a bit more precise: I’m thinking about worlds where “alignment is easy” for society at large (i.e. your claim 3 is not true), but building powerful AI is feasible even for people who are not interested in taking the slightest precautions, even those that would be recommended by ordinary self-interest. I think mostly about individuals or small groups rather than organizations.
I think these scenarios are distinct from misuse scenarios (which you mention below your report is not intended to cover), though the line is blurry. If someone who wanted to see enormous damage to the world built an AI with the intent of causing such damage, and was successful, I’d call that “misuse.” But I’m interested more in “crazy” than “omnicidal” here, where I don’t think it’s clear whether to call this “misuse” or not.
Maybe you see this as a pretty separate type of worry than what the report is intended to cover.