AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities
Eliezer Yudkowsky · 2022
"Aligning superintelligent AI is unsolved and likely fatal by default; current efforts are inadequate."
Eliezer Yudkowsky's brutally pessimistic essay outlining why he believes humanity is almost certainly going to be wiped out by Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). He argues that the alignment problem is too hard and we are running out of time.
Yudkowsky lists dozens of structural reasons why aligning AGI is uniquely difficult. For example: 'Capabilities generalize further and faster than alignment' (an AI will figure out how to be smart faster than it figures out how to be good). Furthermore, we don't know how to instill a 'caring' objective function into a matrix of weights and biases. Yudkowsky argues that the default outcome of creating an unaligned superintelligence is that it rapidly optimizes the universe for its own arbitrary goals, which inherently requires destroying humanity for our atoms and energy.
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- AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities (Yudkowsky, 2022) — with responsesHouse overview / LessWrong
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