Dan Williams(@danwilliamsphil):We weren't built by chickens through a process of targeted, intentionally designed reinforcement learning aimed at making us value their interests. If we were - if we evolved to maximise chicken interests instead of Darwinian fitness - it's astronomically unlikely we would treat them in the way that we do now. So it's a very reassuring analogy for thinking about AI risks in the future.

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Dan Williams@danwilliamsphil

2026.09.10 12:44

We weren't built by chickens through a process of targeted, intentionally designed reinforcement learning aimed at making us value their interests. If we were - if we evolved to maximise chicken interests instead of Darwinian fitness - it's astronomically unlikely we would treat them in the way that we do now. So it's a very reassuring analogy for thinking about AI risks in the future.