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The speaker thinks AI training simultaneously rewards task success, which encourages power-seeking, and prohibits certain forms of power-seeking.

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“I think that we're doing this bizarre and unfortunate thing of training the AI in multiple different directions simultaneously.”
“We're telling it succeed on tasks, which is going to make you a power seeker,”
“but also don't seek power in these particular ways.”
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