Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.

(Part 1 of the CAST sequence)

AI Risk Introduction

(TLDR for this section, since it's 101 stuff that many readers will have already grokked: Misuse vs Mistake; Principal-Agent problem; Omohundro Drives; we need deep safety measures in addition to mundane methods. Jump to “Sleepy-Bot” if all that seems familiar.)

Earth is in peril. Humanity is on the verge of building machines capable of intelligent action that outstrips our collective wisdom. These superintelligent artificial general intelligences (“AGIs”) are almost certain to radically transform the world, perhaps very quickly, and likely in ways that we consider catastrophic, such as driving humanity to extinction. During this pivotal period, our peril manifests in two forms.

The most obvious peril is that of misuse. An AGI which is built to serve the interests of one person or party, such as jihadists or [...]

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Outline:

(00:10) AI Risk Introduction

(05:53) Aside: Sleepy-Bot

(07:46) The Corrigibility-As-Singular-Target Strategy

(12:58) How Can We Get Corrigibility?

(17:32) What Makes Corrigibility Special

(28:08) Contra Impure or Emergent Corrigibility

(31:01) How to do a Pivotal Act

(34:47) Cruxes and Counterpoints

(36:47) “Anti-Naturality” and Hardness

(40:37) Prosaic Methods Make Anti-Naturality Worse

(41:30) Solving Anti-Naturality at the Architectural Layer

(42:52) Aside: Natural Concepts vs Antinatural Properties

(43:46) The Effect Size of Anti-Naturality is Unclear

(45:32) “Corrigibility Isn’t Actually a Coherent Concept”

(47:07) “CAST is More Complex than Diamond, and We Can’t Even Do That”

(50:04) “General Intelligence Demands Consequentialism”

(53:11) Desiderata Lists vs Single Unifying Principle

(56:58) “Human-In-The-Loop Can’t Scale”

(59:17) Identifying the Principal is Brittle

(01:02:56) “Reinforcement Learning Only Creates Thespians”

(01:05:47) “Largely-Corrigible AGI is Still Lethal in Practice”

The original text contained 16 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
June 7th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3HMh7ES4ACpeDKtsW/1-the-cast-strategy

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“1. The CAST Strategy” by Max Harms

LessWrong (30+ Karma)