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Should we control AI instead of aligning it?

Jan Leike · 24 Jan 2025

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    We cannot know how much safety a control measure buys until we understand elicitation, so control adds a margin of unknown size.

    Their wordsHowever, without having a good handle on elicitation, we cannot be confident that our control techniques are effective.

  2. Our reading

    Building AI that can actually be trusted is the goal; containing an AI known to be misaligned is not a substitute for it.

    Their wordsMore generally, we should actually solve alignment instead of just trying to control misaligned AI.

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