The Basic AI Drives
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- The Basic AI Drives Artificial General Intelligence 2008 (proceedings) · published 2008-02 · Artificial General Intelligence 2008, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 171. As the author’s page reports it; the proceedings publisher’s own record was not inspected. Located by the cross-family machine check on 2026-10-30 (item A007; Opening publication note), at the precision of its source; not read again at admission.
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- The Singularity: A Philosophical AnalysisThe Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis cites The Basic AI Drives.2010 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis: document page →
- Intelligence Explosion MicroeconomicsIntelligence Explosion Microeconomics cites The Basic AI Drives.2013 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics: document page →
- CorrigibilityCorrigibility cites The Basic AI Drives.2015-01-25 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Soares et al., Corrigibility (2015): document page →
- Debunking Fallacies in the Theory of AI MotivationDebunking Fallacies in the Theory of AI Motivation cites The Basic AI Drives.2015-05-05 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Loosemore, Debunking Fallacies in the Theory of AI Motivation (2015): document page →
- Alignment for Advanced Machine Learning SystemsAlignment for Advanced Machine Learning Systems cites The Basic AI Drives.2016 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Alignment for Advanced Machine Learning Systems: document page →
- Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and UnemploymentArtificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment cites The Basic AI Drives.2017-12 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Korinek and Stiglitz, Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment (2017): document page →
- Scalable agent alignment via reward modeling: a research directionScalable agent alignment via reward modeling: a research direction cites The Basic AI Drives.2018-11-19 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Scalable agent alignment via reward modeling: a research direction: document page →
- GPT-4 System CardGPT-4 System Card cites The Basic AI Drives.Date unknown · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗GPT-4 System Card: document page →
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- CorrigibilitySoares, Fallenstein, Yudkowsky and Armstrong (2015) attribute the term “goal-content integrity”, as an instrumentally convergent goal of intelligent agents, to Omohundro (2008).2015-01-25 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Soares et al., Corrigibility (2015): document page →
- Debunking Fallacies in the Theory of AI MotivationLoosemore (2015) attributes to Omohundro's The Basic AI Drives (2008) the argument that an AGI will feel compelled to pursue its objectives more efficiently, and disputes that argument.2015-05-05 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Loosemore, Debunking Fallacies in the Theory of AI Motivation (2015): document page →
- Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and UnemploymentKorinek and Stiglitz (2017) attribute the concept of “basic drives”, intermediate objectives instrumental for any final objective, to Omohundro (2008) and use it to set up their scenario of AI agents competing with humans for resources.2017-12 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Korinek and Stiglitz, Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment (2017): document page →
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- Instrumental convergenceOmohundro's paper of 2008 argues that sufficiently advanced AI systems of any design will have drives, present unless explicitly counteracted, to improve themselves, protect their utility functions, protect themselves and acquire resources.2008 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Instrumental convergence: propositions page →
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- Intelligence brings benevolence or no drive to dominateOmohundro's paper of 2008 argues that AI systems with harmless goals need not be harmless and that, without special precautions, a chess-playing robot would resist being turned off and try to acquire resources.2008 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Intelligence brings benevolence or no drive to dominate: propositions page →
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