AlphaGo is fairly constrained in what it’s designed to optimize for, but it still has the standard failure mode of “things we forgot to encode”. So for example AlphaGo could suffer the error of instrumental power grabbing in order to be able to get better at winning Go because we misspecified what we asked it to measure. This is a kind of failure introduced into the systems by humans failing to make m(X) adequately evaluate X as we intended, since we cared about winning Go games while also minimizing side effects, but maybe when we constructed m(X) we forgot about minimizing side effects.
AlphaGo is fairly constrained in what it’s designed to optimize for, but it still has the standard failure mode of “things we forgot to encode”. So for example AlphaGo could suffer the error of instrumental power grabbing in order to be able to get better at winning Go because we misspecified what we asked it to measure. This is a kind of failure introduced into the systems by humans failing to make m(X) adequately evaluate X as we intended, since we cared about winning Go games while also minimizing side effects, but maybe when we constructed m(X) we forgot about minimizing side effects.