Seeking power over others seems like a zero sum game.
That doesn’t make it a bad strategy. Defection is optimal if your partner can’t predict your actions.
If AI levels the persuasion field
I think this post is aimed at a strongly autonomous AI which presumably doesn’t lend persuasive power to non-aligned humans, but LLM behavior seems incoherent enough to me that I can imagine a weakly superhuman persuader doing this.
That doesn’t make it a bad strategy. Defection is optimal if your partner can’t predict your actions.
I think this post is aimed at a strongly autonomous AI which presumably doesn’t lend persuasive power to non-aligned humans, but LLM behavior seems incoherent enough to me that I can imagine a weakly superhuman persuader doing this.