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ChristianKl comments on Open thread, September 2-8, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 10 September 2013 05:51:37PM 0 points [-]

You can't really tell whether something that is smarter than yourself is behaving correctly. In the end a non-self-modifying AI checking on whether a self-modifying sub-AI is behaving correctly isn't much different from a safety perspective than a human checking whether the self modifying AI is behaving correctly.