Yann LeCun's comments in the Facebook thread on instrumental convergence (2019)
A comment by Yann LeCun, dated 4 October 2019. Known from the LessWrong copy of 4 October 2019; the comments themselves are undated.
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- Yoshua Bengio's comments in the Facebook thread on instrumental convergence (2019)LeCun's comment in the 2019 thread replies to Bengio's summary of the debate.2019-10-04 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Bengio, comments in the Facebook thread on instrumental convergence (2019): document page →
- Stuart Russell's comments in the Facebook thread on instrumental convergence (2019)LeCun's comment in the 2019 thread replies to Russell's coffee-fetching argument, which Bengio had asked him to answer.2019-10-04 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Russell, comments in the Facebook thread on instrumental convergence (2019): document page →
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- Yoshua Bengio's comments in the Facebook thread on instrumental convergence (2019)Bengio's comment in the 2019 thread replies to LeCun's points on designing objectives.2019-10-04 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Bengio, comments in the Facebook thread on instrumental convergence (2019): document page →
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- Advanced AI can be kept under control by designLeCun's comments in the 2019 thread state that it will be much easier to control the behaviour of autonomous AI systems than that of humans and human organisations, because their intrinsic objective function can be modified directly.2019-10-04 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Advanced AI can be kept under control by design: propositions page →
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- Instrumental convergenceLeCun's comments in the 2019 thread argue that the instrumental drives Russell describes are avoided by safeguard terms in a system's objective, and that instrumental subgoals are much weaker drives of behaviour than hardwired objectives.2019-10-04 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Instrumental convergence: propositions page →
- Existential risk from misalignment or loss of controlLeCun's comments in the 2019 thread state that he disagrees that there is a high risk of accidentally building existential threats to humanity, holding that such threats have to be designed as such.2019-10-04 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Existential risk from misalignment or loss of control: propositions page →
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