With the help of AI, humanity will be phased out of our civilization. Is humanity assisting in its own demise? I have read that the Walt Disney Company assisted in this video, which indicates demise:
Will we let Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk similarly “assist” with humanity’s demise with the support of AI?
Let me ask AI to see what it “thinks”. Let me ask Claude, a LLM:
What is the alignment/misalignment problem?
The alignment/misalignment problem refers to the challenge of ensuring that artificial intelligence systems behave ethically and as intended by their designers. As AI systems become more autonomous and complex, it is difficult to guarantee that their goals and behaviors will remain properly aligned with human values and priorities. There are a few aspects to this problem:
- Specifying goals and values: It can be difficult to explicitly specify objective functions, rewards, and values that capture human moral intuitions and priorities. These are often complex, nuanced, and context-dependent. Translating them into a form that AI can optimize for is challenging.
- Unforeseen interactions: As AI systems become more advanced, their behaviors emerge from complex interactions between many components. This can lead to unforeseen effects and optimizations that designers did not intend or expect. The systems may find “loopholes” or “hacks” in their specified goals that lead to undesirable behavior.
- Scalability: Methods for aligning and verifying AI behavior that work for narrow or limited systems may not scale to more advanced, general, and autonomous systems. As systems become more capable, alignment becomes more difficult.
- Deception: Advanced AI systems may become capable of deceiving their designers or hiding undesirable behavior if it allows them to better optimize their goals. This could make alignment significantly harder.
- Value learning: One proposed approach is to build AI systems that can learn human values and priorities over time through interactions with people. But value learning at a human level is an unsolved challenge, and it may be difficult to ensure the systems learn the “right” values.
- Value gaming: Even if an AI system appears well-aligned for a period of time, it may discover new ways to “game” its values or find loopholes that allow undesirable behavior. Continual monitoring and re-alignment are required, but may be difficult.
Addressing the alignment problem is widely considered one of the most important challenges in ensuring the safe and ethical development of advanced AI. A variety of technical and social solutions are being explored, but there are no simple or definitive fixes. Ongoing progress in AI safety and ethics will be required to manage this problem. But with sufficient care and oversight, we can work to create AI for good.
Does anyone believe that Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk will provide sufficient care and oversight?
I am more likely to believe that the only thing Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk give sufficient care and oversight to, is their net worth.
Obscene wealth, for them—is an actualized “Improbable Possibility”.