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3 risk entries extracted from 74 frameworks, coded by domain, subdomain, causal entity, intent and timing. Filter, then export the current selection with its licence and citation attached.
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55.05.00 · Risk Category
"The values that steer humanity’s future: humanity gaining more control over the future due to developments in AI, or losing our potential for gaining control, both seem possible. Much will depend on our ability to solve the alignment problem, who develops powerful AI first, and what they use it for. These long-term impacts of AI could be hugely important but are currently under-explored. We’ve attempted to structure some of the discussion and stimulate more research, by reviewing existing arguments and highlighting open questions. While there are many ways AI could in theory enable a flourish
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55.05.01 · Risk Sub-Category
AI leads to humans losing control of the future
Risks from AIs developing goals and values that are different from humans
"The main concern here is that we might develop advanced AI systems whose goals and values are different from those of humans, and are capable enough to take control of the future away from humanity."
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55.05.02 · Risk Sub-Category
AI leads to humans losing control of the future
Risks from delegating decision-making power to misaligned AIs
"As AI systems become more advanced a nd begin to take over more important decision-making in the world, an AI system pursuing a different objective from what was intended could have much more worrying consequences."
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