The Sable scenario in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies vs. the AI in Context retelling
Aric Floyd
Our version of the Sable story differs from the book in a number of ways. Most of our changes were made for one of two reasons:
- Simplicity. We had to tell the story within a 40-minute video that also covered the book’s core arguments. We chose to simplify or eliminate several plot points as a result (in Yudkowsky & Soares’ story, for example, Sable is assigned a large suite of math problems, and the eventual global pandemic has multiple waves).
- Similarity to current AI systems. Yudkowsky...