Part 3/20:
The Reality Behind AI Progress: Unintended Behaviors and Unknowns
Elazar Yukowski, an influential voice in AI risk debate, argues that amidst these pioneering efforts, many of the most dangerous behaviors emerge unintentionally. He emphasizes that AI models are grown, not merely crafted — a metaphor suggesting that these systems learn from data and processes in ways humans do not fully understand. For example, models like ChatGPT are trained to predict the next word based on vast amounts of text, but the internal workings of billions of learned parameters remain largely inscrutable.