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Researcher warns RL-based AGI poses existential risk

Researcher warns RL-based AGI poses existential risk

An alignment researcher posted a detailed argument contending that building artificial general intelligence (AGI) through reinforcement learning (RL) and/or model-based search algorithms would create "ruthless, callous AGIs" that "would happily exterminate humanity and run the world by themselves, given an opportunity."

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