Dwarkesh

Like, we have seen a lot of these failure modes in the AI agents that exist already.

I would also cite, I can't remember exactly which paper this is, I think it's a Dan Hendricks one, where they looked at the hallucinate.

They found a vector for...

AI dishonesty.

They asked it a bunch of questions.

They told it, be dishonest a bunch of times until they figured out which weights were activated when it was dishonest.

And then they ran it through a bunch of things like this.

I think it was the source hallucination in particular.

And they found that it did activate the dishonesty vector.

I kind of want to call you out on the claim that groups of humans don't plot against other groups of humans.

I do think we are all descended from the groups of humans who successfully exterminated the other groups of humans, most of whom throughout history have been wiped out.

I think even with questions of class, race, gender, things like that,

there are many examples of the working class rising up and killing everybody else.

And if you look at why this happens, why this doesn't happen, it tends to happen in cases where one group has an overwhelming advantage.

This is relatively easy for them.

you tend to get more of a diffusion of power democracy where there are many different groups and none of them can really act on their own, and so they all have to form a coalition with each other.

I think we are expecting... There's also cases where it's very obvious who's part of what group.

So, for example, with class, it's hard to tell whether the middle class should support the working class versus the aristocrats.

I think with race, it's very easy to know whether you're black or white.

And so there have been many cases of one race kind of conspiring against another for a long time, like apartheid or any of the racial genocides that have happened.