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Malign generalization without internal search

📅 2020
public awareness
🔵 Rare
#ai #inner alignment

📖 Description

In [my last post](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/nFDXq7HTv9Xugcqaw/is-the-term-mesa-optimizer-too-narrow), I challenged the idea that inner alignment failures should be explained by appealing to agents which perform explicit internal search. By doing so, I argued that we should instead appeal to the more general concept of *malign generalization*, and treat mesa-misalignment as a special case.

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Variable Change Condition
Research +5 Always
Vibey Doom +5 Always
Ethics Risk -5 Always

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"Critical insights for the field"
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"Discussed in AI safety community"
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