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Why Would AI Want to do Bad Things? Instrumental Convergence
Robert Miles AI Safety
Robert Miles explains instrumental convergence: why an AGI with almost any goal would tend to pursue sub-goals like self-preservation and resource acquisition. It builds on Omohundro's basic AI drives and his orthogonality thesis video.
HN commenters repeatedly recommend it as the clearest introduction to why smart AI might behave badly by default.
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