An AI mind that thinks and solves problems in ways very unlike humans.
Picture a chess robot winning with moves no coach taught. It works. It also makes everyone at the table squint.
AI may reach a goal by a strange route. We need to test for surprising shortcuts.
AI Anthropomorphism
Alien Mind warns us not to treat AI motives like human motives.
Alignment
An alien mind can follow a goal in a surprising way.
Mechanistic Interpretability
Mechanistic Interpretability studies the AI's strange problem-solving steps.