The AI Corrigibility Debate: MIRI Researchers Max Harms vs. Jeremy Gillen

Max Harms and Jeremy Gillen are current and former MIRI researchers who both see superintelligent AI as an imminent extinction threat.But they disagree on whether it’s worthwhile to try to aim for obedient, “corrigible” AI as a singular target for current alignment efforts.Max thinks corrigibility is the most plausible path to build ASI without losing control and dying, while Jeremy is skeptical that this research path will yield better superintelligent AI behavior on a sufficiently early try.By listening to this debate, you’ll find out if AI corrigibility is a relatively promising effort that might prevent imminent human extinction, or an over-optimistic pipe dream.Timestamps0:00 — Episode Preview1:18 — Debate Kickoff3:22 — What is Corrigibility?9:57 — Why Corrigibility Matters11:41 — What’s Your P(Doom)™16:10 — Max’s Case for Corrigibility19:28 — Jeremy’s Case Against Corrigibility21:57 — Max’s Mainline AI Scenario28:51 — 4 Strategies: Alignment, Control, Corrigibility, Don’t Build It37:00 — Corrigibility vs HHH (”Helpful, Harmless, Honest”)44:43 — Asimov’s 3 Laws of Robotics52:05 — Is Corrigibility a Coherent Concept?1:03:32 — Corrigibility vs Shutdown-ability1:09:59 — CAST: Corrigibility as Singular Target, Near Misses, Iterations1:20:18 — Debating if Max is Over-Optimistic1:34:06 — Debating if Corrigibility is the Best Target1:38:57 — Would Max Work for Anthropic?1:41:26 — Max’s Modest Hopes1:58:00 — Max’s New Book: Red Heart2:16:08 — OutroShow NotesMax’s book Red Heart — https://www.amazon.com/Red-Heart-Max-Harms/dp/108822119XLearn more about CAST: Corrigibility as Singular Target — https://www.lesswrong.com/s/KfCjeconYRdFbMxsy/p/NQK8KHSrZRF5erTbaMax’s Twitter — https://x.com/raelifinJeremy’s Twitter — https://x.com/jeremygillen1---Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate.Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates, or to really take things to the next level: Donate 🙏 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

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