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Machines should not need to use ego-protective reasoning to rationalize mistakes made by a political party they support.
Unidentified speaker · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025
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“even though I'm not a Freudian, we have ego protective ways of reasoning.”
“Machines should not need that, right?”
“Like I believe in my political party.”
“And so when my political party does dumb thing, then I go and try to, you know, come up with a rationale for it. Machines shouldn't need to do that kind of stuff. And so in that way, you know, certainly the upper bound is going to be way beyond.”Play from 2:00:58Report a misattribution
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