Reinforcement Learning Gone Wrong
Last weekβs episode on artificial intelligence gets a huge payoff this weekβweβll explore a wonderful couple of papers about all the ways that artificial intelligence can go wrong. Malevolent actors? You bet. Collateral damage? Of course. Reward hacking? Naturally! Itβs fun to think about, and the discussion starting now will have reverberations for decades to come.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601519/how-to-create-a-malevolent-artificial-intelligence/
http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02817
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06565