🧩 Philosophy 4h ago · Ram Potham

Smart Contracts as Credible Commitments for Trading with Scheming AIs

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Smart Contracts as Credible Commitments for Trading with Scheming AIs
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Epistemic status: medium confidence. I believe that smart contracts are promising mechanisms for trading with AIs, but they are probably not sufficient by themselves. It’s probably best to combine this with other approaches to make it easier for AI to verify deals are real.If we have potentially scheming AIs that we want to get useful work from, trading with them might be our best option [1]. We can offer resources that allow AIs to achieve their goals (compute, funds, donations to accomplish th

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