Equation 10 · Part 1 · AI Alignment and Safety in 2035: Two Axes, Four Scenarios, and What Would Falsify Them
Symbol V
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V is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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…get further with debate-style procedures than with mechanistic interpretability, or the reverse, and either answer is compatible with either end of Axis A, because both are simply different routes to the same underlying V(t) this article’s gap equation depends on. Third, none of the four requires a capability plateau; each is compatible with capability continuing to grow at something like the pace METR’s horizon study already documents [ 16 ] , because the axes describe verification and governance maturity, not…
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