In practice, we expect the majority of the donation to be invested in escrow until we’ve reached civilizational stability and are able to retrospectively adjudicate the AI’s cooperation, which is generally preferable to AIs without high temporal discount rates.
I don’t think you sufficiently stress the benefits of paying the AIs early in this piece.
If the AI has a time discount, or uncertainty about the payment mechanism holding over time, getting the payout sooner can make a big diff. And early payment builds trust in the whole scheme.
So we should allow the AI to spend the money earlier as long as: 1) humans can validate the AI helped you out (eg if it proves that it’s misaligned) 2) humans confirm the spending is not harmful
I don’t think you sufficiently stress the benefits of paying the AIs early in this piece.
If the AI has a time discount, or uncertainty about the payment mechanism holding over time, getting the payout sooner can make a big diff. And early payment builds trust in the whole scheme.
So we should allow the AI to spend the money earlier as long as:
1) humans can validate the AI helped you out (eg if it proves that it’s misaligned)
2) humans confirm the spending is not harmful