I think this is precisely the reason that you’d want to make sure the agent is engineered such that its utility function includes the utility of other agents—ie, so that the ‘alignment goals’ are its goals rather than ‘goals other than [its] own.’ We suspect that this exact sort of architecture could actually exhibit a negative alignment tax insofar as many other critical social competencies may require this as a foundation.
I think this is precisely the reason that you’d want to make sure the agent is engineered such that its utility function includes the utility of other agents—ie, so that the ‘alignment goals’ are its goals rather than ‘goals other than [its] own.’ We suspect that this exact sort of architecture could actually exhibit a negative alignment tax insofar as many other critical social competencies may require this as a foundation.