When is Unlimited Optimization Catastrophic?

This post discusses research I've completed along with my colleagues Leo Cymbalista, Alfred Harwood, and Jose Faustino at Dovetail Research. Most of the ideas in this post are expanded upon in our paper which can be found on arXiv. This work was funded by the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) through project code MSAI-SE01-P005.A common justification for the danger of AI comes from the idea that human value is fragile. That is, if we modify our values and heavily optimize the world for...