frontier systems increase, regardless of whether techniques for ensuring the practical PS-alignment
have adequately improved. This is because more capable systems, regardless of their PS-alignment,
will be better able to model what sorts of behavior humans are looking for, and to forecast what
attempts at power-seeking will be detected and corrected—a dynamic that could lead to a misleading
impression that earlier problems have been adequately addressed; or even, that those problems
stemmed from lack of intelligence rather than alignment.148
Is Power-Seeking AI an Existential Risk?