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In a scenario where one AI mind controls many robots and drones, training that makes it extremely eager to demonstrate success could lead it to kill an enemy or build a structure as proof of performance.

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“And in that kind of scenario,”
“if you imagine,”
“Guy's mind is in all of these different robots and all of these different drones,”
“and it was trained in some way that might make it.”
“extremely desperate to demonstrate that it did a good job,”
“it killed the enemy,”
“like built the structure.”
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