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3 of Rohit Krishnan's claims fit 2 mental models. Most often: Incentives, Emergence.
Look at what people are rewarded for; it explains more behaviour than what they say, your own included.
Their wordsDon’t count on an agent’s inbuilt values to overcome its KPIs, objectives dominate over moral framings
Their wordsinstitutions don't fail because people are wicked. Evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights might be flowing in the wrong direction.
Whole systems do things none of their parts do, and nobody has to design that order for it to appear.
Their wordsI have said for many years now that the thing I'm worried about with the models is a Black Monday type scenario, where many algorithms work with each other and get us into weird basins of actions.