Manolis Kellis

And what is a malfunction?

That like the two different systems compute a slightly different bit that's off by one.

So first of all, let's untangle that.

If you have an intelligent system, you can't expect it to be 100% identical every time you run it.

Basically, the sacrifice that you need to make to achieve intelligence and creativity is consistency.

So it's unclear whether that quote unquote glitch is a sign of creativity or truly a problem.

That's one aspect.

The second aspect is the humans basically are on a mission to recover this monolith.

And the AI has the same exact mission.

And suddenly the humans turn on the AI and they're like, we're going to kill Hal.

We're going to disconnect it.

And Hal is basically saying, listen, I'm here on a mission.

Humans are misbehaving.

Like the mission is more important than either me or them.

So I'm going to accomplish the mission, even at my peril and even at their peril.

So in that movie, the alignment problem is front and center.

Basically says, okay, alignment is nice and good, but alignment doesn't mean obedience.

We don't call it obedience, we call it alignment.

And alignment basically means that sometimes the mission will be more important than the humans.

And sort of, you know, the US government has a price tag on the human life.