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Safety Must Precede the Deployment of Open-Ended AI

Ivaxi Sheth, Jan Wehner, Mario Fritz, Ruta Binkyte, Sahar Abdelnabi

Open-ended AI systems pose unique safety challenges that existing methods cannot address and must be tackled before deployment.

arxiv:2502.04512 v4 · 2025-02-06 · cs.AI

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C1strongest claim

the defining properties of open-ended AI systems introduce a distinct and underexplored class of safety challenges, including loss of predictability, emergent misalignment, and difficulties in maintaining effective control as systems evolve beyond their initial design assumptions, that must be addressed preemptively.

C2weakest assumption

These challenges differ qualitatively from those associated with task-bounded or static models and are unlikely to be addressed by existing safety frameworks alone.

C3one line summary

Open-ended AI systems introduce distinct safety challenges including loss of predictability, emergent misalignment, and control difficulties that must be addressed preemptively before large-scale deployment.

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Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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92a5658e9dae83c103cfae66765e11f56cf7d18337fa62240552294a32fdbfe2

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arxiv: 2502.04512 · arxiv_version: 2502.04512v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.04512 · pith_short_12: SKSWLDU5V2B4 · pith_short_16: SKSWLDU5V2B4CA6P · pith_short_8: SKSWLDU5

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