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sdenton4today at 2:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

Would you trust a bridge built by a single human? In reality, we have lots of guardrails to ensure that we don't screw up and kill a lot of people by deploying defective bridges (or cars to drive on them). Those guardrails often are written in blood, and still occasionally fail.


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seanclaytontoday at 3:43 PM

Why not have AGI check other AGI? Peer review by fellow humans is what gives humans assurance, to the degree in which review was done by peers of equal or greater intelligence.

AGI checking other AGI should give you that same trust, no? Deepseek says my ChatGPT bridge is stable, you should trust it. Claude says it's stable. The humans say it isn't, but they aren't AGI. You can trust this bridge because it's been vetted by AGI. In my opinion, LLMs cannot be AGI, so for me I would never trust them above any human I would trust. But for those who do believe LLMs can be AGI, they have to demonstrate why we should trust them above any human in these extreme cases. Meaning, if someone says "Well the department of safety (ran by humans) says it's not safe" we have to believe that AGI just knows better than the department of safety. I think this is not possible right now, which is why I don't think we can trust anything built by LLMs where we need the tolerance of risk to human life and safety to approach zero. American AGI soldiers invade the home of Iranian citizens because they have been identified as terrorists. Do you trust the AGI to know if the visual scan they see in this civilian home is a threat to the interests of the United States government and its citizens?

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Jenssontoday at 7:49 PM

> Would you trust a bridge built by a single human?

But an AI doesn't replace a single human, it replaces every human in the project, so it needs to match a team of humans not a single human.

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