I think the risk of unaligned octopuses taking over the world is lower than the risk of unaligned AGI:
We know how to stop breeding octopuses once they reach human intelligence.
Even once octopuses reach human intelligence it might take a long time for them to learn the technology required to win a war against us.
They have short life spans, so limited time to learn new technologies or cultural evolution. The idea would be to see how long it took for octopuses to solve the sort of problems uneducated intelligent people could, not invent novel mathematics.
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I think the risk of unaligned octopuses taking over the world is lower than the risk of unaligned AGI:
We know how to stop breeding octopuses once they reach human intelligence.
Even once octopuses reach human intelligence it might take a long time for them to learn the technology required to win a war against us.
They have short life spans, so limited time to learn new technologies or cultural evolution. The idea would be to see how long it took for octopuses to solve the sort of problems uneducated intelligent people could, not invent novel mathematics.
Planet of the Squids!