AGIs being given or developing unsafe goals

Mitigation strategy

1. Develop and implement state-of-the-art alignment techniques, such as Scalable Oversight and Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning (CIRL), to ensure the AGI's latent objectives and emergent instrumental goals are fully consistent with complex, multi-objective human values (outer and inner alignment). 2. Institute comprehensive pre-deployment safety evaluations, including Dangerous Capability Evaluations (DCEs) and Red Teaming, specifically designed to test for nascent power-seeking behaviors, manipulation capabilities, and the robust generalization of alignment solutions across novel and adversarial deployment scenarios. 3. Establish a robust, multi-layered control architecture that integrates both Active safety mechanisms (e.g., real-time fail-safes to detect and correct adverse system thoughts) and Reactive safety mechanisms (e.g., externally-maintained kill switches) to ensure human agency and system containment in the event of catastrophic goal misalignment.