Forget about whether your sandbox is a realistic enough test. There are even questions about how much safety you’re getting from a sandbox. So, we follow your advice, and put the AI in a box in order to test it. And then it escapes anyway, during the test.
The idea that society is smart enough to build machine intelligence, but not smart enough to build a box to test it in does not seem credible to me:
Humans build boxes to put other humans in—and have a high success rate of keeping them inside when they put their minds to it. The few rogue agents that do escape are typically hunted down and imprisoned again. Basically the builders of the box are much stronger and more powerful than what it will contain. Machine intelligence testing seems unlikely to be significantly different from that situation.
The cited “box” scenario discusses the case of weak gatekeepers and powerful escapees. That scenario isn’t very relevant in this case—since we will have smart machines on both sides when restraining intelligent machines in order to test them.
Forget about whether your sandbox is a realistic enough test. There are even questions about how much safety you’re getting from a sandbox. So, we follow your advice, and put the AI in a box in order to test it. And then it escapes anyway, during the test.
That doesn’t seem like a reliable plan.
The idea that society is smart enough to build machine intelligence, but not smart enough to build a box to test it in does not seem credible to me:
Humans build boxes to put other humans in—and have a high success rate of keeping them inside when they put their minds to it. The few rogue agents that do escape are typically hunted down and imprisoned again. Basically the builders of the box are much stronger and more powerful than what it will contain. Machine intelligence testing seems unlikely to be significantly different from that situation.
The cited “box” scenario discusses the case of weak gatekeepers and powerful escapees. That scenario isn’t very relevant in this case—since we will have smart machines on both sides when restraining intelligent machines in order to test them.