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The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement
Tom Cunningham, Lukas Althoff, Basil Halperin +6
We model the economics of recursive self-improvement (RSI) and assess its plausibility and impacts. First, we build a sequence of increasingly rich models of AI progress to highlig…
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Mechanism Design for Alignment and Control
Dirk Bergemann, Andrew Koh, Stephen Morris
We develop a framework for mechanism design with AI agents whose alignment (preferences) and capabilities (feasible actions and information) are unknown. We want such agents to act…