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People often dismiss current AI systems' frequent lying because they see it as an expected consequence of the systems' architecture.

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

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“idea of some evil ai but then whenever something bad whenever something goes wrong people are just like oh that's the algorithm so for example i think like 10 years ago you had asked like when will we know that misalignment is really an important thing to worry about people would say like oh if the ai ever lies to you of course ai is lied to people all the time now and everybody just kind of dismisses it because we understand why it happens it's a thing that would obviously happen based on our”
“than our current AI architecture.”
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