• Strategic awareness seems closely related to a basic capacity to “understand what is going
on,” interact with other agents (including human agents) in the real world, and recognize
available routes to achieving your objectives—all of which seem very useful to performing
tasks of the type just described. Indeed, to the extent that humans care about the strategic
pursuit of e.g. business, military, and political objectives, and want to use AI systems in these
domains, it seems like there will be incentives to create AI systems with the types of world
models necessary for very sophisticated and complex types of strategic planning—including
planning that involves recognizing and using available levers of real-world power.
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