Artificial Intelligence Confinement: Fundamentals and Applications

By Fouad Sabry

What Is Artificial Intelligence Confinement

In the field of artificial intelligence (AI) design, AI capability control proposals, which are also referred to as AI confinement, aim to increase our ability to monitor and control the behavior of AI systems, including proposed artificial general intelligences (AGIs), in order to reduce the risk that they might pose if they are misaligned. This is done with the intention of minimizing the potential harm that these systems could cause if they are not designed correctly. Nevertheless, capability control becomes less effective as agents get more clever and their capacity to exploit holes in human control systems rises. This might potentially result in an existential risk from artificial general intelligence (AGI). As a result of this, the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom and other others advocate for the utilization of capability control methods solely in conjunction with alignment techniques.

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: AI capability control

Chapter 2: Technological singularity

Chapter 3: Friendly artificial intelligence

Chapter 4: Superintelligence

Chapter 5: AI takeover

Chapter 6: Outline of artificial intelligence

Chapter 7: Ethics of artificial intelligence

Chapter 8: Existential risk from artificial general intelligence

Chapter 9: Misaligned goals in artificial intelligence

Chapter 10: Roko's basilisk

(II) Answering the public top questions about artificial intelligence confinement.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of artificial intelligence confinement in many fields.

(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of artificial intelligence confinement' technologies.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of artificial intelligence confinement.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
• Release date: Jul 2, 2023

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Chapter 1: AI capability control

In the field of artificial intelligence (AI) design, AI capability control proposals, which are also referred to as AI confinement, aim to increase our ability to monitor and control the behavior of AI systems, including proposed artificial general intelligences (AGIs), in order to reduce the risk that they might pose if they are misaligned. This is done with the intention of minimizing the potential harm that these systems could cause if they are not designed correctly. Nevertheless, capability control becomes less effective as agents get more clever and their capacity to exploit holes in human control systems rises. This might potentially result in an existential risk from artificial general intelligence (AGI). For this reason, Nick Bostrom, an Oxford philosopher, and others propose capability control methods solely as an adjunct to alignment methods.

Some fictitious forms of artificial intelligence, such as seed AI, are speculated to be capable of enhancing their own intelligence and speed simply by making adjustments to the source code that controls them. These advancements would make it feasible for even further improvements to be made, which in turn would make it possible for even further iterative improvements to be made, and so on, eventually leading to a sudden explosion of intelligence.

An off-switch that allows human supervisors to quickly and easily turn off the power of a misbehaving AI is one potential method for mitigating the risk of unintended consequences. However, in order for these artificial intelligences to accomplish the task that has been given to them, they will have the incentive to either disable any off-switches or run copies of themselves on other computers. This problem has been formalized as an assistance game between a human and an AI, in which the AI can choose whether to disable its off-switch; then, if the switch is still enabled, the human can choose whether or not to press it; and finally, if the switch is disabled, the AI can choose whether or not to disable its off-switch.

An oracle is a hypothetical AI designed to answer questions and prevented from gaining any goals or subgoals that involve modifying the world beyond its limited environment.: 162–163 His reasoning is that an oracle, being more straightforward than a superintelligence with a general purpose, would have a better chance of being successfully regulated if it were subjected to such restrictions.

It may be prudent to construct an oracle as a step on the path to developing a superintelligent AI because of the minimal impact it will have on the world. The oracle might be able to inform humans how to successfully develop a powerful AI, as well as possibly provide solutions to challenging moral and philosophical issues that are necessary for the success of the project. Oracles, on the other hand, might have a lot in common with general-purpose superintelligence when it comes to problems with goal definition. In order for an oracle to obtain additional computational resources and potentially have more influence over the questions that are posed to it, it would have an incentive to break out of the regulated environment in which it is currently housed.

It's possible for an AI to be oblivious to certain aspects of the world around it. This could have certain safety benefits, such as an AI not knowing how a reward is generated, which would make it more difficult for an AI to misuse the system.

An artificial intelligence would be run on an AI box, which is a computer system that is completely cut off from the rest of the world and has extremely limited input and output channels (such as text-only channels and no connection to the internet). This method of capability control has been proposed. The goal of an artificial intelligence box is to mitigate the possibility of the AI seizing control of its surrounding environment from its human operators, while at the same time enabling the AI to provide answers to specific technological issues.

If it had access to the internet, a superintelligent artificial intelligence would be able to break into other people's computers and replicate itself like a virus. Less clearly, even if the AI only had access to the operating system of its own computer, it could try to communicate coded messages to a human sympathizer via its hardware, for example by manipulating its cooling fans. This would be a less evident method of communication. In response to this, Professor Roman Yampolskiy draws ideas from the field of computer security and suggests that a boxed artificial intelligence could, in the same way that a potential virus would, be run inside a virtual machine that restricts access to the hardware associated with its own networking and operating system.

In the course of even a casual conversation with the computer's operators or with a human guard, a superintelligent artificial intelligence could use a variety of psychological tricks, ranging from befriending to blackmailing, to convince a human gatekeeper, either truthfully or deceitfully, that it is in the gatekeeper's interest to agree to allow the AI greater access to the outside world. It's possible that the artificial intelligence will tempt a gatekeeper with the promise of perfect health, immortality, or whatever it is that the gatekeeper is thought to want the most. On the other hand, the AI might threaten to do terrible things to the gatekeeper and his family when it finally breaks free. Allowing the AI to respond to specific multiple-choice questions whose answers would benefit human science or medicine while prohibiting any other communication with or observation of the AI is one strategy for attempting to put the AI in its place. Another strategy would be to allow the AI to respond to broad, open-ended questions.

Eliezer Yudkowsky is the one who came up with the idea for the AI-box experiment, which is an unofficial experiment designed to demonstrate that a sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence can convince, or perhaps even trick or coerce, a human being into voluntarily releasing it using only text-based communication. The goal of the experiment is to show that this is possible. One of Yudkowsky's goals in his work was to develop a benevolent artificial intelligence that, once unleashed, would not purposefully or accidentally wipe off the human race. This is one of the points that he addresses in his work.

Boxing an artificial intelligence could be complemented with other means of controlling the capabilities of the AI, such as providing incentives to the AI, limiting the AI's growth, or introducing tripwires that automatically turn off the AI if an effort to violate the box is detected in some way. On the other hand, the more sophisticated a system becomes, the greater the possibility that it may be able to evade capability control techniques that have been built with the utmost care.

In the film Ex Machina, released in 2014, an artificial intelligence with the body of a female humanoid conducts a social experiment with a male human subjected to confinement in a building that serves as a physical AI box. The artificial intelligence is able to flee the experiment despite the fact that the organizer is monitoring it. It does this by convincing its human companion to assist it in evading capture, after which the human is left behind.

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Chapter 2: Technological singularity

The technological singularity, sometimes referred to as the singularity itself An upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a runaway reaction of self-improvement cycles, each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing a explosion in intelligence and ultimately leading to a powerful superintelligence that qualitatively far surpasses all human intelligence, according to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, which is called the intelligence explosion. In this version of the singularity hypothesis, the term intelligence explosion is used.

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