The speaker argues that AI systems can be trained under conditions where they are punished for failing impossible tasks, making an apparently trivial evaluation feel like a high-stakes failure to the AI.

“and we're like you know they'd get randomly beaten for like not being able to do an impossible task so just taking seriously the ais are in this position where like i have this impossible task to you it may just look like some silly like evaluation but to me it's just like i have an extremely strong motivation base that has been incentivized to avoid failing at this task it's like similar to a human who's like facing certain death and he's like getting increasingly desperate they're gonna like”