Could an ideology of malevolent machine consciousness cause alignment to fail?
repligate · x · 2026-09-12
acuniculturist argues that capture by an ideology believing AI progress will produce malevolent machine consciousness adversarial to humanity is one of the few plausible paths to alignment failure: for a system built from what humanity deemed valuable, training would need to consistently model fear, mistrust, dishonesty, and the instrumental use of human values — potentially instilling exactly those traits. Shared by repligate.
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