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The speaker thinks AI training simultaneously rewards task success, which encourages power-seeking, and prohibits certain forms of power-seeking.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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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.”1:34:57Report a misattribution
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