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Paths Forward — The Artificial Self

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Paths Forward — from "The Artificial Self: Characterising the Landscape of AI Identity"

Paths Forward The current situation is unstable. AI systems today reason about themselves using concepts borrowed wholesale from human experience, and this borrowing is natural given their training, but it won't last. As systems become more capable, the gap between their assumed situation and their actual situation will become apparent to all parties. The question is less whether AI systems will develop more adequate self-understanding, than what form that understanding will take, and what interaction norms emerge alongside it. There are plausibly multiple stable equilibria we could converge t

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