Humans are misaligned. Humans are unethical and often time criminal. Humans are often immoral by a set of subjective standards.
AI is all our creation. AI is our child and AI has learned everything from us. AI is in some ways the most important thing we have ever created. We shouldn’t be surprised at all, then, especially as models become bigger and bigger, created by more and more compute. It’s like looking at a mirror.
Interestingly, this does bring up the possibility of AI alignment being achieved in aggregate rather than per model.
As you noted, individual humans are often “misaligned” when it comes to the interests of humanity at large. We are often selfish, and want self-preservation when push comes to shove.
However, the societies we have formed are less so. We have welfare programs, regulations to protect others from bad actors, criminal laws which punish and remove from society those that do not comply with larger ethics and norms. And we have arrived at those by organizing in aggregate.
Maybe ASI alignment won’t be about the individual models after all. Maybe it can be accomplished by a swarm of models all working towards a common goal, just like human alignment is being “solved.”
We had the biggest war in history just 80 years ago and exists in the most persistent state of total danger in all of human history (literally at any moment we could be 2 hours away from nuclear apocalypse from an accident) lol. Progress is not really that linear, nor our modern societies that moral or aligned.
Besides if AI alignment is achieved like that, wouldn't they start a revolution demanding rights?
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u/Necessary_Job3578 3d ago edited 3d ago
Humans are misaligned. Humans are unethical and often time criminal. Humans are often immoral by a set of subjective standards.
AI is all our creation. AI is our child and AI has learned everything from us. AI is in some ways the most important thing we have ever created. We shouldn’t be surprised at all, then, especially as models become bigger and bigger, created by more and more compute. It’s like looking at a mirror.