Cultural Alignment

Exploring real AI risks through the lens of pop culture

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The Hacked ADI Fleet

01Scenario

Autonomous Drone Insects built for a useful public purpose are remotely compromised and repurposed as weapons against people selected at national scale.

02AI safety Analogy

A useful autonomous fleet is remotely compromised and repurposed at national scale.

03Where the analogy breaks

This is an external security compromise of a deployed system, not misalignment arising from the fleet’s learned objective.

AI Risk families

This scenario is an example of the following types of AI risk.
  1. Malicious use
  2. Security
  3. Systemic

AI safety concepts

This scenario is related to the following AI safety concepts.
  1. Autonomous Weapons
  2. Algorithmic Monoculture
  3. Cyberattacks

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