Clarifying the role of the behavioral selection model (opens in new tab)

This is a brief elaboration on The behavioral selection model for predicting AI motivations, based on some feedback and thoughts I’ve had since publishing. Written quickly in a personal capacity.The main focus of this post is clarifying the basic machinery of the behavioral selection model, and conveying why it matters to disambiguate between different “motivations” for AI behavior. Very similar or identical behavior in training can correspond to radically different outcomes in deployment bas...