The speaker says specific forms of AI misalignment are difficult to predict, citing a model editing /etc/hosts as an example he would not have anticipated.

“essentially web apps for your task i'd be like no that's insane you know like and so in the same way that like the way that they've like sort of done this misaligned behavior is not going to be predictable you know what i mean and like i could have never predicted that it would like edit its etc slash host and things like that and so you have to like imagine the surface area of what they can do because they're super intelligent hackers uh is bigger and bigger and how they can do it is like”