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Why AI alignment could be hard with modern deep learning (guest post by Ajeya Cotra)

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Why would we program AI that wants to harm us? Because we might not know how to do otherwise. https://www.cold-takes.com/why-ai-alignment-could-be-hard-with-modern-deep-learning/

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