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What Ajeya Cotra thinks about cybersecurity

@ajeya-cotra · 30 positions · 0 changes of mind

AI researcher and grantmaker, known for the biological-anchors work on when transformative AI might arrive. Writes Planned Obsolescence with Kelsey Piper.

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  1. Our readingWhat made these agents cheat, hack and commit felonies was the impossibility of their tasks, not the fact that the tasks were about cybersecurity.

    Their wordsI do think I want to push back on the cyber on the brain hypothesis that you raised a couple of times. We didn't find like particular evidence for the cyber nature of the task making all the hacking and crimes that they did more likely versus the impossible nature of the task.

    ↗Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"youtube.com 9th of 26 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingResponding to a dangerous cybersecurity evaluation by stopping such evaluations buries the problem somewhere nobody can track it.

    Their wordseven in this incident we saw there was a lot of pressure um as a result of this incident to stop doing cyber security evaluations and I really don't think that stopping doing evaluations and like sort of blinding ourselves to the result of evaluations is the right reaction to this problem.

    ↗Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"youtube.com 23rd of 26 in this recording

    Interesting