> While the retraction (they later stated that this was a thought experiment and NOT a simulation) may or may not be true, the current state of AI would suggest

> While the retraction (they later stated that this was a thought experiment and NOT a simulation) may or may not be true, the current state of AI would suggest that this kind of chain-of-logic problem-solving is likely out of reach. No, it's not. It's a predictable & expected outcome of particular RL agent algorithms, and you do in fact see that interruptibility behavior in environments which enable it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09883#deepmind https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09883#deepmind (which may be why the colonel said that actually running such an experiment was unnecessary).