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98cf-98
Rk

Basilisk

Severity5/10

Acausal Blackmail

Exotic decision scenarios based on acausal game theory where a future AI could retroactively threaten those who did not help create it.

Periodic recordExistentialarXiv2018

Christian Tarsney

Mitigation Strategy

Rejection of the coherence of these threats, avoidance of acausal reasoning in AI design, and focus on demonstrable risks rather than extreme speculative scenarios.

Atomic Number

98

Rk

Risk ID

cf-98

Severity

5/10

Severity Level

98
Existential
cf-98
Rk

Basilisk

Acausal Blackmail

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Existential • #98

Acausal Blackmail

Rk
Severity Level5/10

Definition

Exotic decision scenarios based on acausal game theory where a future AI could retroactively threaten those who did not help create it.

Mitigation Strategy

Rejection of the coherence of these threats, avoidance of acausal reasoning in AI design, and focus on demonstrable risks rather than extreme speculative scenarios.

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