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No. Surreptitious means done with deliberate stealth to conceal your actions, not a miscalculation that results in a failure.

• ben_w 2y ago
  To those who are dead, that's a distinction without a difference. So far as I'm aware, none of the "killer robots gone wrong" actual sci-fi starts with someone deliberately aiming to wipe themselves out, it's always a misspecification or an unintended consequence. The fact that we don't know how to determine if there's a misspecification or an unintended consequence is the alignment problem.
  • root_axis 2y ago
    "Unintended consequences" has nothing to do with AI specifically, it's a problem endemic to every human system. The "alignment" problem has no meaning in today's AI landscape beyond whether or not your LLM will emit slurs.
  • 8note 2y ago
    To those who are dead, it doesn't matter if there was a human behind the wheel, or a matrix