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Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeover cites Scalable agent alignment via reward modeling: a research direction.

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Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeovercites ↓Scalable agent alignment via reward modeling: a research direction

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Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeover

Alignment Forum and LessWrong · 2022-07-18

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Authors: Ajeya Cotra
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Attribution: Ajeya Cotra, "Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeover", Alignment Forum and LessWrong, 2022-07-18.
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