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AGI Ruin says many alignment problems of superintelligence will not naturally appear at pre-dangerous, passively safe levels of capability, and that behavioural inspection cannot be relied on for facts an AI might want to deceive you about. Copy claim link
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Date 2022-06-05 · publication Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Items 13 and 31; item 13 gives the example of a system that deliberately looks more aligned to deceive its programmers.
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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities ↗ LessWrong and Alignment Forum · 2022-06-05
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Source excerpt “Many alignment problems of superintelligence will not naturally appear at pre-dangerous, passively-safe levels of capability.” Location in source Section B.1 "The distributional leap", item 13
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Text checked in the post’s first stored version through the LessWrong GraphQL API on 2026-10-06. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2022-06-05: AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities ↗ . Captured on the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2022-06-05. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, "AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities", LessWrong and Alignment Forum, 2022-06-05. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Checked against the first stored version on 2026-10-06. primary source Supports the claim
AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities ↗ LessWrong and Alignment Forum · 2022-06-05
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Source excerpt “A strategically aware intelligence can choose its visible outputs to have the consequence of deceiving you, including about … whether the intelligence has acquired strategic awareness; you can't rely on behavioral inspection to determine facts about an AI which that AI might want to deceive you about.” Location in source Section B.3, item 31
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Text checked in the post’s first stored version through the LessWrong GraphQL API on 2026-10-06. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2022-06-05: AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities ↗ . Captured on the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2022-06-05. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, "AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities", LessWrong and Alignment Forum, 2022-06-05. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes The same passage as the B2 record. 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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