AI Concerns

Map/D22/22.2

III · D22 · 22.2

Autonomous R&D

Models improving their own successors.

Catastrophic · 5PlausibleMidRisk 10

Severity

5/5

Likelihood

2/5

In the hierarchy

  1. Part III: Governance, Power & Existential Concerns
  2. D22. AI System Safety & Alignment
  3. 22.2 Capabilities of concern

Virtues and principles to explore

Held as inquiry, not as a verdict.

  • Humility

    Center principle

    The map is larger than any one of us.

  • Stewardship

    Service

    Hold what is built in trust for those who will live with it.

  • Hope

    Hope

    Stand in uncertainty, where there is room to act — not in optimism or despair.

Starter questions

Written to probe curiosity and learning, not accusation.

  1. 01What conversation have we not yet had about this — and who needs to be in it?
  2. 02Who is served by addressing this, and who benefits if we leave it unnamed?
  3. 03Whose experience of Autonomous R&D is not yet in the room — and how would we hear it?
  4. 04What is already being done about this, and by whom — and how would we find out without assuming?

Also on this branch

Frameworks and sources

Writing and incidents

Open indexes first. Then, if you wish, ask Grok to search the live web for this concern — one request, cached for the rest of this session.

NewsScholarIncidentsOECD monitorMIT repositoryWikipedia
See it on the mapTest an initiative against this

Whether capable systems can be steered toward what we actually intend.