AI SAFETY & ETHICS
The Case for Low-Competence ASI Failure Scenarios
LessWrong AI
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I think the community underinvests in the exploration of extremely-low-competence AGI/ASI failure modes and explain why. Humanity's Response to the AGI Threat May Be Extremely Incompetent There is a sufficient level of civilizational insanity overall and a nice empirical track record in the field of AI itself which is eloquent about its safety culure. For example: At OpenAI, a refactoring bug flipped the sign of the reward signal in a model.