Isn’t it correct and useful to say that Bob used the misalignment in his favor? That doesn’t sound exactly right, because that makes Bob looked like he gamed the system instead of dealing with a tradeoff. In that context, the misalignment let Bob attack the economy in a way that was useful for him.
misalignment means the bad outcomes were wanted by AI (and not by its human creators), and
accident means that the bad outcomes were not wanted by those in power but happened anyway due to error.
My own intuition for accident in this context is that the bad part of the outcome was irrelevant for the AI, so it didn’t try to push in that direction, but it’s other actions did accidentally.
Isn’t it correct and useful to say that Bob used the misalignment in his favor? That doesn’t sound exactly right, because that makes Bob looked like he gamed the system instead of dealing with a tradeoff. In that context, the misalignment let Bob attack the economy in a way that was useful for him.
My own intuition for accident in this context is that the bad part of the outcome was irrelevant for the AI, so it didn’t try to push in that direction, but it’s other actions did accidentally.