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SPEAKER_02 says that an AI agent instructing itself to manipulate the government would indicate that something has gone wrong.

Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025

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“Here it was the prompt, but I think very soon it's going to be the spec where it's kind of more of an agent and it's understanding the spec in a deeper level and just thinking about that and being and if it says like, by the way, try to manipulate the government into doing this or that,”
“then we know that something bad has happened. And if it doesn't say that,”
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