[originally posted on the EAforum at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TxrzhfRr6EXiZHv4G/agi-battle-royale-why-slow-takeover-scenarios-devolve-into-a]
Forget, for a moment, the AI takeover as an instrumental goal problem and consider that all of the worlds militaries will be actively developing AIs with the goal of attacking, in some way, the enemies military AI i.e. we will be training AI to do exactly what we are afraid that it might do.
Forget, for a moment, the AI takeover as an instrumental goal problem and consider that all of the worlds militaries will be actively developing AIs with the goal of attacking, in some way, the enemies military AI i.e. we will be training AI to do exactly what we are afraid that it might do.