Emergent Capabilities
AccidentHighEmergent capabilities are abilities that appear in AI systems at certain scales without being explicitly trained for, often appearing abruptly rather than gradually.
Severity
High
Likelihood
Medium (occurring)
Time Horizon
~2025
Maturity
Growing
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Sources3
Wei et al., 2022
Schaeffer et al., 2023
BIG-bench
Assessment
SeverityHigh
LikelihoodMedium (occurring)
Time Horizon~2025
MaturityGrowing
CategoryAccident
Details
Key FindingCapabilities appear suddenly at scale
Tags
scalingcapability-evaluationunpredictabilityphase-transitionsai-safety