What Failure Looks Like

Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.The stereotyped image of AI catastrophe is a powerful, malicious AI system that takes its creators by surprise and quickly achieves a decisive advantage over the rest of humanity.I think this is probably not what failure will look like, and I want to try to paint a more realistic picture. I’ll tell the story in two parts:Part I: machine learning will increase our ability to “get what we can measure,” which c...