In this article, we do not evaluate studies, argumentation, or evidence for or against such claims, but instead ask a simple cybersecurity-inspired question, which has significant implication for the field of AI safety, namely: If we are in the simulation, can we escape from the simulation? More formally the question could be phrased as: Could generally intelligent agents placed in virtual environments jailbreak out of them?įirst, we need to address the question of motivation, why would we want to escape from the simulation? We can propose several reasons for trying to obtain access to the baseline reality as there are many things one can do with such access which are not otherwise possible from within the simulation. Several philosophers and scholars have put forward an idea that we may be living in a computer simulation.

Using examples from video games, to exploring quantum mechanics, Yampolskiy leaves no stone unturned as to how we might be able to hack our way out of it. Elon Musk thinks it is >99.9999999% certain that we are in a simulation. Yampolskiy argues if we are living inside a simulation, we should be able to hack our way out of it.

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