If we pose the AI problems and observe its solutions, that’s a communication channel through which it can persuade us. We may try to hide from it the knowledge that it is in a simulation and that we are watching it, but how can we be sure that it cannot discover that?
Persuading does not have to look like “Please let me out because of such and such.”
For example, we pose it a question about easy travel to other planets, and it produces a design for a spaceship that requires an AI such as itself to run it.
If we pose the AI problems and observe its solutions, that’s a communication channel through which it can persuade us. We may try to hide from it the knowledge that it is in a simulation and that we are watching it, but how can we be sure that it cannot discover that?
Persuading does not have to look like “Please let me out because of such and such.” For example, we pose it a question about easy travel to other planets, and it produces a design for a spaceship that requires an AI such as itself to run it.