ELK = Eliciting Latent Knowledge.

The spirit of the question is to know whether we will still need to find a solution to whatever the hard parts of the ELK problem are as currently understood.

This question will resolve No if any of the following are true:

• The problem of worst-case ELK is solved AND the solution can be implemented in practice fairly easily

• It is shown conclusively that the ELK problem is and will continue to be easy to solve in practice up to at least superhuman level AI, or will not be necessary for such.

• A substantially simpler subproblem of ELK is identified as the necessary crux for alignment, and efforts shift to this simpler subproblem

This question will still resolve Yes if any of the following are true:

• The ELK problem is subsumed by another, more general framing, to which a solution would imply all or most of an ELK solution

• There is some evidence that ELK is easy in practice in some current models, but there is no strong reason to expect this to generalize to much more powerful models

• There exists in theory a method for building an AGI that solves the ELK problem, but the method is prohibitively difficult or uncompetitive.

In all ambiguous situations, I will consult alignment researchers and exercise my own judgement in resolving the question. When in conflict, I will prioritize the spirit of the question over the letter.