Meditations and Learnings

Meditations and Learnings

Some Problems in Artificial Intelligence

The Alignment Problem

There is no reason that AI would be aligned with our goals unless we made sure of it, and even then subtle diversions could cause huge problems.

“God in a Box”

To think that a super intelligent AI would not be able to get out of a box is a limit of the imagination. The AI may be disconnected from any network and contained remotely on a single computer, but if it is sufficiently intelligent it will navigate its way out even if only through human engineering and manipulation.