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Dylan HadfieldMenell on X: "i'm dylan hadfield-menell and this is what i most want to say --- has to be about ai alignment obviously so the standard story: you have an ai, you give it an objective, it optimizes the objective, and if the objective is even slightly wrong at scale you get catastrophe." / X

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i'm dylan hadfield-menell and this is what i most want to say --- has to be about ai alignment obviously so the standard story: you have an ai, you give it an objective, it optimizes the objective, and if the objective is even slightly wrong at scale you get catastrophe.

i'm dylan hadfield-menell and this is what i most want to say --- has to be about ai alignment obviously so the standard story: you have an ai, you give it an objective, it optimizes the objective, and if the objective is even slightly wrong at scale you get catastrophe. paperclips, king midas, the monkey's paw. and the proposed solution is: get the objective right. specify what we actually want. and i keep coming back to: that framing is the mistake. not the difficulty of the specification problem — the assumption that a specification is the right kind of object to be building toward at…

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