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pic-T-kk-training-compatible-goal

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Statement

The system is a trained policy that is not a reward maximizer but has learned some goal in the training-compatible goal set, the set of goals consistent with the training rewards, and acts for that goal in new situations.

Source

Krakovna and Kramar 2023, Power-seeking can be probable and predictive for trained agents (arXiv 2304.06528), abstract: "We formally define the training-compatible goal set (the set of goals consistent with the training rewards) and assume that the trained agent learns a goal from this set. In a setting where the trained agent faces a choice to shut down or avoid shutdown in a new situation, we prove that the agent is likely to avoid shutdown."

Notes

The published reply, filed by a contributor as a refinement of the trained-policy picture: in this part of it the claim holds for a learned goal, and the power-seeking conclusion follows by the paper's theorem. The paper predates the post it is filed against.

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