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Distributional AGI Safety
Nenad Tomašev, Matija Franklin, Julian Jacobs +2
AI safety and alignment research has predominantly been focused on methods for safeguarding individual AI systems, resting on the assumption of an eventual emergence of a monolithi…
Virtual Agent Economies
Nenad Tomasev, Matija Franklin, Joel Z. Leibo +4
The rapid adoption of autonomous AI agents is giving rise to a new economic layer where agents transact and coordinate at scales and speeds beyond direct human oversight. We propos…
Multi-Actor Generative Artificial Intelligence as a Game Engine
Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Jayd Matyas, Logan Cross +6
Generative AI can be used in multi-actor environments with purposes ranging from social science modeling to interactive narrative and AI evaluation. Supporting this diversity of us…
How Overconfidence in Initial Choices and Underconfidence Under Criticism Modulate Change of Mind in Large Language Models
Dharshan Kumaran, Stephen M Fleming, Larisa Markeeva +8
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strikingly conflicting behaviors: they can appear steadfastly overconfident in their initial answers whilst at the same time being prone to exc…
Wanting to Be Understood Explains the Meta-Problem of Consciousness
Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Simon Osindero
Because we are highly motivated to be understood, we created public external representations -- mime, language, art -- to externalise our inner states. We argue that such external…
Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt
Joel Z. Leibo, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, William A. Cunningham +3
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly placed in positions where their decisions have real consequences, e.g., moderating online spaces, conducting research, and adv…
Wanting to be Understood
Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Simon Osindero
This paper explores an intrinsic motivation for mutual awareness, hypothesizing that humans possess a fundamental drive to understand and to be understood even in the absence of ex…