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Abram Demski at MATS: Summer 2026

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Abram Demski

Methodologically speaking, a proposed AI safety technique is only as good as its safety argument. This does not imply that we need to mathematically prove absolute safety from no assumptions (which is impossible), but it does mean we need to track what assumptions we need to make and rigorously connect them into an argument. In my view, there are still fundamental unknowns about how to put such an argument together, specifically in relation to how one agent can trust another. Intelligence/agency make empirical observations more difficult to generalize, since intelligent agents can negate…

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