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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalitiescontests ↓Safety evaluations would catch a dangerous system

The post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” (2022-06-05) contests Y12. Argues that behavioural inspection cannot establish facts that a strategically aware AI has reason to hide, including whether it has become strategically aware. Part of a list on the limits of transparency and interpretability.

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Date: 2022-06-05 · publication
Role: Contesting
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Engagement: Engages a premise. Under the message-level rule, the passage, read with the paragraph, message or dialogue turn it belongs to, gives a reason against the premise that a dangerous system would behave dangerously while it is being tested.

Scope and limitsPremise addressed: A dangerous system would behave dangerously while it is being tested.

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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

LessWrong and Alignment Forum · 2022-06-05

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“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 AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities, Section B.3, item 31

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Authors: Eliezer Yudkowsky
Version: Text checked in the post’s first stored version through the LessWrong GraphQL API on 2026-10-06.
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Accessed: 2026-10-06
Language: English (en)
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Attribution: Eliezer Yudkowsky, "AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities", LessWrong and Alignment Forum, 2022-06-05.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage T12-c. The quotation (47 words; trimmed 2026-10-13 from 38 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 b36f38a6fd1020bfbd7b9d941e150ea68561242f3a41a0b8f2a56b853a9a6db3) when checked on 2026-10-06. It also matched the posting-day version 1.0.0. Pack version note: edited post, current version 1.3.0; posting-day check pending. The dataset already quotes this source for the human-thought collection; together the quotations would exceed the per-document quotation limit. Replaced by the dataset's existing verbatim quotation of the same item, which contains both parts of the pack's quotation and counts once.

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