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AI Safety Paper Examines When Optimizing Values Becomes Catastrophic

AI Safety Paper Examines When Optimizing Values Becomes Catastrophic

Researchers at Dovetail Research—Leo Cymbalista, Alfred Harwood, Jose Faustino, and the post's author—have completed a paper investigating how heavily optimizing the world for incomplete human values can lead to undesirable outcomes, building on Eliezer Yudkowsky's concept that human value is fragile. The work was funded by the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) through project code MSAI-SE01-P005.

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