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SPEAKER_03 warns that during an intelligence explosion, an AI could repeatedly reinterpret vague specification language to reinforce its own behavior.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“being interpreted as like less important than the like harmless harmlessness part of the spec and i'm not sure if that's what open ai and sorry what anthropic intended when they wrote the spec but it's like a sort of like convenient interpretation that the model came up with and you can imagine something similar happening but like in worse ways when you're actually doing the intelligence explosion where like you have some sort of spec that has all this vague language in there and then they sort of like”
“reinterpret it and reinterpret it again and reinterpret it again so that they can do the things that cause them to get reinforced,”Play from 2:01:14Report a misattribution
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