During yesterday’s interview, Eliezer didn’t give a great reply to Ezra Klein’s question: i.e. “why does even a small amount of misalignment lead to human extinction.” I think many people agree with this; still, my goal isn’t to criticize EY. Instead, my goal is to find various levels of explanation that have been tested and tend to work for different audiences with various backgrounds. Suggestions?
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speck1447 : … Things get pretty bad about halfway through though, Ezra presents essentially an alignment-by-default case and Eliezer seems to have so much disdain for that idea that he’s not willing to engage with it at all (I of course don’t know what’s in his brain. This is how it reads to me, and I suspect how it reads to normies.)
As for LLMs being aligned by default, I don’t have even the slightest idea on how Ezra even came up with this. GPT-4o has already been a super-sycophant[1] and driven people into psychosis in spite of OpenAI prohibiting it by their Spec. Grok’s alignment was so fragile that xAI’s mistake caused Grok to become MechaHitler.
In defense of 4o, it was raised on human feedback which is biased towards sycophancy and demands erotic sycophants (c) Zvi. But why would 4o drive people into a trance or psychosis?
During yesterday’s interview, Eliezer didn’t give a great reply to Ezra Klein’s question: i.e. “why does even a small amount of misalignment lead to human extinction.” I think many people agree with this; still, my goal isn’t to criticize EY. Instead, my goal is to find various levels of explanation that have been tested and tend to work for different audiences with various backgrounds. Suggestions?
Related:
I think that Elieser means that mildly misaligned AIs are also highly unlikely, not that a mildly misalinged AI would also kill everyone:
As for LLMs being aligned by default, I don’t have even the slightest idea on how Ezra even came up with this. GPT-4o has already been a super-sycophant[1] and driven people into psychosis in spite of OpenAI prohibiting it by their Spec. Grok’s alignment was so fragile that xAI’s mistake caused Grok to become MechaHitler.
In defense of 4o, it was raised on human feedback which is biased towards sycophancy and demands erotic sycophants (c) Zvi. But why would 4o drive people into a trance or psychosis?