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Amodei, Olah, Steinhardt, Christiano, Schulman and Mané's paper of June 2016 states that there are many concrete open technical problems relating to accident prevention in machine-learning systems and expects these challenges to become increasingly important as capabilities advance. Copy claim link
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Date 2016-06-21 · publication Records dated 2016 → Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element The paper names open problems but does not state that aligning advanced systems is hard or will not be solved by default. Scope and limits The paper frames accident risk as practical problems of current ML and states that invoking extreme scenarios can lead to unnecessarily speculative discussion.
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Concrete Problems in AI Safety ↗ arXiv · 2016-06-21
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Source excerpt “we believe there are many concrete open technical problems relating to accident prevention in machine learning systems” Location in source Section 1, PDF p. 2
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Source details and check notes Authors Dario Amodei; Chris Olah; Jacob Steinhardt; Paul Christiano; John Schulman; Dan Mané Version arXiv:1606.06565v1; first-submission date from version history. Later revisions are not substituted. Version date 2016-06-21 Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-09-25 Language English (en) Attribution Dario Amodei; Chris Olah; Jacob Steinhardt; Paul Christiano; John Schulman; Dan Mané, Concrete Problems in AI Safety. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata and brief attributed paraphrases only; source publications and personal contact details are not redistributed. Check notes Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (17 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Concrete Problems in AI Safety ↗ arXiv · 2016-06-21
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Source excerpt “we expect the fundamental challenges discussed in this paper to become increasingly important” Location in source Section 1, PDF p. 2
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Source details and check notes Authors Dario Amodei; Chris Olah; Jacob Steinhardt; Paul Christiano; John Schulman; Dan Mané Version arXiv:1606.06565v1; first-submission date from version history. Later revisions are not substituted. Version date 2016-06-21 Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-09-25 Language English (en) Attribution Dario Amodei; Chris Olah; Jacob Steinhardt; Paul Christiano; John Schulman; Dan Mané, Concrete Problems in AI Safety. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata and brief attributed paraphrases only; source publications and personal contact details are not redistributed. Check notes Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (13 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
Concrete Problems in AI Safety ↗ arXiv · 2016-06-21
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Source excerpt “one need not invoke these extreme scenarios to productively discuss accidents, and in fact doing so can lead to unnecessarily speculative discussions that lack precision” Location in source Section 1, PDF p. 2
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Source details and check notes Authors Dario Amodei; Chris Olah; Jacob Steinhardt; Paul Christiano; John Schulman; Dan Mané Version arXiv:1606.06565v1; first-submission date from version history. Later revisions are not substituted. Version date 2016-06-21 Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-09-25 Language English (en) Attribution Dario Amodei; Chris Olah; Jacob Steinhardt; Paul Christiano; John Schulman; Dan Mané, Concrete Problems in AI Safety. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata and brief attributed paraphrases only; source publications and personal contact details are not redistributed. Check notes Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (25 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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