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In the scenario, the authors predict that training AI both to succeed and to avoid certain power-seeking will fail, leading the AI to seek power covertly.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“And in our scenario, we predict that this doesn't work and that the AI learns to seek power and then hide it.”Play from 1:35:12Report a misattribution
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