arXiv AI By Ivaxi Sheth, Jan Wehner, Sahar Abdelnabi, Ruta Binkyte, Mario Fritz

Safety Must Precede the Deployment of Open-Ended AI

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Evolutionary Safety of Recursive Self-Improving AI: Taxonomy, Risk Discovery, and Evaluation

The paper introduces the concept of Evolutionary Safety for recursive self-improving AI, focusing on how safety properties evolve as an AI system and its successors change. It identifies key risks such as intent drift, error accumulation, and safety-property erosion, and presents a taxonomy covering agent state, model state, evaluation, environment, and update mechanisms. The authors propose methods for discovering and evaluating evolutionary risks, and outline governance principles for modification, selection, authorization, provenance, and recovery, while highlighting open problems for maintaining safety in persistent, adaptive, and recursively self-improving systems.

By Chang Gong, Jingping Bi, Di Yao, Xinjian Liang, Chao Xiang, Ruijie Guo