Stovepiping and Malicious Software: A Critical Review of AGI Containment
This is an incremental review that addresses safety concerns for researchers and policymakers in AI development.
The paper critically reviews AGI containment as a safety paradigm, highlighting potential blindspots in current mechanisms, particularly regarding generative adversarial networks and malicious AI.
Awareness of the possible impacts associated with artificial intelligence has risen in proportion to progress in the field. While there are tremendous benefits to society, many argue that there are just as many, if not more, concerns related to advanced forms of artificial intelligence. Accordingly, research into methods to develop artificial intelligence safely is increasingly important. In this paper, we provide an overview of one such safety paradigm: containment with a critical lens aimed toward generative adversarial networks and potentially malicious artificial intelligence. Additionally, we illuminate the potential for a developmental blindspot in the stovepiping of containment mechanisms.