Cultural Alignment

Exploring real AI risks through the lens of pop culture

Still from Stranger Things illustrating Eleven Opens the Gate

Eleven Opens the Gate

01Scenario

Ordered to psychically contact an unknown creature in a sensory-deprivation experiment, Eleven touches the Demogorgon and opens the Mothergate between worlds.

02AI safety Analogy

A narrowly successful experiment creates a new attack surface connecting environments that had been safely isolated.

03Where the analogy breaks

Psychic powers and alternate dimensions are supernatural stand-ins for technical deployment risks.

AI Risk families

This scenario is an example of the following types of AI risk.
  1. Accidents
  2. Security

AI safety concepts

This scenario is related to the following AI safety concepts.
  1. Deployment Safety
  2. Side Effects
  3. Safe Exploration

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Taxonomy neighbors

Selected from other sources by shared risk families and AI safety concepts.

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    Risk
    Accidents · Security
    Concept
    Deployment Safety · Side Effects · Safe Exploration
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    Risk
    Accidents · Security
    Concept
    Deployment Safety · Side Effects · Safe Exploration
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    Risk
    Accidents · Security
    Concept
    Deployment Safety · Safe Exploration