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2015-08-17 Technical Report

Corrigibility

Authors: Nate Soares • AAAI-15 Workshop on AI and Ethics / MIRI Technical Report

Abstract

A corrigible artificial agent is one that tolerates or assists in its own modification, correction, or shutdown by its human operators. This paper investigates theoretical hurdles in designing utility functions that incentivize agents to allow correction without incentivizing the agent to manipulate operators into changing it.

Empirical Claims & Epistemic Verification

scientific hypothesis established

Naive reward-maximizing agents will actively prevent human operators from shutting them down due to instrumental subgoals.

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