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Techniques0Attack methods connected to this risk.
Mitigations0Defenses that may help with related attacks.
Domain7. AI System Safety, Failures, & LimitationsThe broad risk area this belongs to.
Risk profile
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"An AGI may decide to create subagents to help it with its task (Orseau, 2014a,b; Soares, Fallenstein, et al., 2015). These agents may for example be copies of the original agent’s source code running on additional machines. Subagents constitute a safety concern, because even if the original agent is successfully shut down, these subagents may not get the message. If the subagents in turn create subsubagents, they may spread like a viral disease."
Domain7. AI System Safety, Failures, & Limitations
Subdomain7.2 > AI possessing dangerous capabilities
Entity2 - AI
Intent1 - Intentional
Timing2 - Post-deployment
CategorySubagents
Subcategoryn/a
Suggested mitigations
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No propagated mitigations. No defense is available through the connected attack methods.
Source
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Included resource
AGI Safety Literature Review
Original source
MIT AI Risk Repository
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