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90th-90
Lk

Lock-in

Severity10/10

Value Lock-in

Scenario where specific moral values (potentially misguided or authoritarian) become permanently encoded in superintelligent AI systems that determine the long-term future.

Periodic recordExistentialarXiv2024

Tianyi Qiu, Yang Zhang, Xuchuan Huang, Jasmine Xinze Li, Jiaming Ji, Yaodong Yang

Mitigation Strategy

Design of flexible digital constitutions with update mechanisms, value pluralism in AI systems, and preservation of human moral revision capacity.

Atomic Number

90

Lk

Risk ID

th-90

Severity

10/10

Severity Level

90
Critical Risk
Existential
th-90
Lk

Lock-in

Value Lock-in

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Value Lock-in

Lk
Severity Level10/10

Definition

Scenario where specific moral values (potentially misguided or authoritarian) become permanently encoded in superintelligent AI systems that determine the long-term future.

Mitigation Strategy

Design of flexible digital constitutions with update mechanisms, value pluralism in AI systems, and preservation of human moral revision capacity.

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