The prototypical catastrophic AI action is getting root access to its datacenter - AI Alignment Forum

(I think Carl Shulman came up with the “hacking the SSH server” example, thanks to him for that. Thanks to Ryan Greenblatt, Jenny Nitishinskaya, and Ajeya Cotra for comments.) …

x The prototypical catastrophic AI action is getting root access to its datacenter — AI Alignment Forum Existential risk AI Frontpage 68 The prototypical catastrophic AI action is getting root access to its datacenter by Buck 2nd Jun 2022 3 min read 13 68 (I think Carl Shulman came up with the “hacking the SSH server” example, thanks to him for that. Thanks to Ryan Greenblatt, Jenny Nitishinskaya, and Ajeya Cotra for comments.) EDIT: I recommend reading my discussion with Oli in the comments for various useful clarifications. In my opinion, the prototypical example of an action which an AI can

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