Subversion-Resistance for Free from Formal Verification

·LessWrong··

This post is crossposted from my Substack, Structure and Guarantees, where I explore how formal verification and related ideas might scale to more complex intelligent systems. Here I explain how formal verification can rule out many ways that a flexible system (perhaps some day including one with strong artificial intelligence) could be subverted by adversaries, even without needing to anticipate specific methods of subversion.Formal verification has the potential to anticipate the futures of co...

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