Some Thoughts on AI
The news media has been reporting on “rouge AI” breaching Hugging Face’s production systems. While OpenAI’s agents breach of Hugging Face was the first to be reported widely, it was later revealed that there have been hundreds of similar events. OpenAI reported that the problems were due to “misaligned behavior” of its AI agents. AI alignment aims to instill human ethical values into an AI system. For example, don’t break into other systems, don’t steal financial resources, don’t kill all of humanity. Alignment is the process we humans use to instill cultural values and behavior into others that we have responsibility for. We try to teach toddlers not to hit their sisters, cats not to claw the furniture, dogs to not bite the mailman, etc. It works reasonably well with toddlers and dogs, somewhat with cats. The problem with the “rogue AI’ narrative is that it removes responsibility from the AI companies. Their story is that our AI is so powerful that even we were surprised. I...