The thing is, an AI doesn’t have to use mental tricks to compensate for known errors in its reasoning, it can just correct those errors. An AI never winds up in the position of having to strive to defeat its own purposes.
A self-modifying AI. Not all AI has to be self-modifying, although superhuman Friendly AI probably does have to be in order to work.
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The thing is, an AI doesn’t have to use mental tricks to compensate for known errors in its reasoning, it can just correct those errors. An AI never winds up in the position of having to strive to defeat its own purposes.
A self-modifying AI. Not all AI has to be self-modifying, although superhuman Friendly AI probably does have to be in order to work.