Cultural Alignment
Still from Godzilla (2014) illustrating The Warhead Is Food

The Warhead Is Food

01Scenario

The military uses a nuclear warhead as bait, but the MUTOs seize it and carry it into their nest.

02AI safety Analogy

An intervention based on the wrong causal model supplies the threat with exactly the resource it wants and worsens the failure state.

03Where the analogy breaks

The MUTOs' attraction to radiation is biological and directly specified by the story.

AI Risk families

This scenario is an example of this type of AI risk.
  1. Accidents

AI safety concepts

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

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