At the Omnicide Machine Manufacturing Corporation, we work tirelessly to ensure an omnicide-free future. That's why we’re excited to announce our Responsible Increase Policy (RIP)—our internal protocol for managing any risks that arise as we create increasingly omnicidal machines.

Inspired by the risk-management framework used in gain-of-function virology research, our RIP defines a framework of Omnicidal Ability Levels (OAL), reflecting the precautions we plan to take as we release increasingly dangerous features over time:

The basic idea of the RIP is simple: each time we ship an update which makes our product more lethal, we will pause our efforts for some amount of time, and then revise our policies to be in some sense more “cautious.” For example, our RIP contains the following firm commitments:

• We aspire to take actions which are broadly good, rather than broadly bad;
• We hope to refrain from releasing any weakly omnicidal systems [...]

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Outline:

(02:09) The Sweet Lesson: Reasoning is Futile

(03:20) Gain of Omnicide

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