LW - Shane Legg's necessary properties for every AGI Safety plan by jacquesthibs

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Shane Legg's necessary properties for every AGI Safety plan, published by jacquesthibs on May 1, 2024 on LessWrong. I've been going through the FAR AI videos from the alignment workshop in December 2023. I'd like people to discuss their thoughts on Shane Legg's 'necessary properties' that every AGI safety plan needs to satisfy. The talk is only 5 minutes, give it a listen: Otherwise, here are some of the details: All AGI Safety plans must solve these problems (necessary properties to meet at the human level or beyond): Good world model Good reasoning Specification of the values and ethics to follow All of these require good capabilities, meaning capabilities and alignment are intertwined. Shane thinks future foundation models will solve conditions 1 and 2 at the human level. That leaves condition 3, which he sees as solvable if you want fairly normal human values and ethics. Shane basically thinks that if the above necessary properties are satisfied at a competent human level, then we can construct an agent that will consistently choose the most value-aligned actions. And you can do this via a cognitive loop that scaffolds the agent to do this. Shane says at the end of this talk: If you think this is a terrible idea, I want to hear from you. Come talk to me afterwards and tell me what's wrong with this idea. Since many of us weren't at the workshop, I figured I'd share the talk here to discuss it on LW. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org