Edouard Harris - New Research: Advanced AI may tend to seek power *by default*

What does power seeking really mean? And does all this imply for the safety of future, general-purpose reasoning systems? Edouard Harris, an AI alignment researcher and one of Jeremie's co-founders of the AI safety company (Gladstone AI) comes back on the TDS Podcast to discuss AI's potential ability to seek power. Intro music: ➞ Artist: Ron Gelinas ➞ Track Title: Daybreak Chill Blend (original mix) ➞ Link to Track: https://youtu.be/d8Y2sKIgFWc 0:00 Intro 4:00 Alex Turner’s research 7:45 What technology wants 11:30 Universal goals 17:30 Connecting observations 24:00 Micro power seeking behaviour 28:15 Ed’s research 38:00 The human as the environment 42:30 What leads to power seeking 48:00 Competition as a default outcome 52:45 General concern 57:30 Wrap-up