That is what AI Governance focuses on. The pessimistic answer is that a single researcher can’t do anything. Though that really can be said about all aspects of government. Luckily most governments that count are at least sort of democratic and so have to take into account the people. Which implies that a researcher can’t do much, but a group of them might be able to. In other words—politics.
If you know how the AI works, you could work on coming up with malicious inputs, something like this, but more general. Though now we’re going deep into the weeds—most people here are more focused on how to make the AI not want to kill us, rather than not letting it be used to kill us.
That is what AI Governance focuses on. The pessimistic answer is that a single researcher can’t do anything. Though that really can be said about all aspects of government. Luckily most governments that count are at least sort of democratic and so have to take into account the people. Which implies that a researcher can’t do much, but a group of them might be able to. In other words—politics.
If you know how the AI works, you could work on coming up with malicious inputs, something like this, but more general. Though now we’re going deep into the weeds—most people here are more focused on how to make the AI not want to kill us, rather than not letting it be used to kill us.