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The Case for Low-Competence ASI Failure Scenarios

Zac Boring March 20, 2026 1 min read
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I think the community underinvests in the exploration of extremely-low-competence AGI/ASI failure modes and explain why. Humanity's Response to the AGI Threat May Be Extremely IncompetentThere is a sufficient level of civilizational insanity overall and a nice empirical track record in the field of AI itself which is eloquent about its safety culure. For example:At OpenAI, a refactoring bug flipped the sign of the reward signal in a model. Because labelers had been instructed to give very low ra

By Ihor Kendiukhov

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