Executive summary: Value fragility between AI systems and humans could make AI takeover incentives worse, but commitments to niceness and power-sharing may help diffuse adversarial dynamics.
Key points:
Value fragility is the idea that slightly different value systems lead to very different outcomes under extreme optimization. The author distinguishes this from the claim that agents with slightly different values will converge to different values on reflection.
In a multipolar scenario where no single agent has the exact right values, value fragility still implies the future will be low value for any given agent. The author is uncertain whether multipolarity actually alleviates value fragility concerns.
Value fragility is not necessary for arguing that an AI would try to take over the world if doing so is extremely easy. But it could increase AI takeover incentives in cases where takeover is harder, by making the AI expect a human-run world to be low value.
Commitments to “niceness” (intrinsically valuing how things go according to another agent’s values) and intentional power-sharing could help diffuse adversarial dynamics between AIs and humans that stem from value fragility.
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Executive summary: Value fragility between AI systems and humans could make AI takeover incentives worse, but commitments to niceness and power-sharing may help diffuse adversarial dynamics.
Key points:
Value fragility is the idea that slightly different value systems lead to very different outcomes under extreme optimization. The author distinguishes this from the claim that agents with slightly different values will converge to different values on reflection.
In a multipolar scenario where no single agent has the exact right values, value fragility still implies the future will be low value for any given agent. The author is uncertain whether multipolarity actually alleviates value fragility concerns.
Value fragility is not necessary for arguing that an AI would try to take over the world if doing so is extremely easy. But it could increase AI takeover incentives in cases where takeover is harder, by making the AI expect a human-run world to be low value.
Commitments to “niceness” (intrinsically valuing how things go according to another agent’s values) and intentional power-sharing could help diffuse adversarial dynamics between AIs and humans that stem from value fragility.
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