---
aliases:
  en:
  - self preservation
concept_id: self_preservation
preferred:
  en: self-preservation
  ja: 自己保存
relations:
  relations:
    broader:
    - power_seeking
status: active
---

# self-preservation

Behavior aimed at preserving an agent's continued operation, ability to act, or ability to pursue its objectives; when pursued instrumentally by goal-directed AI, self-preservation can conflict with shutdown, modification, correction, or other forms of human control.

## broader

- [power-seeking](../terminology/power_seeking.txt)

## Documents: about

- [自己保存は最終目標でなくてもシャットダウンを妨げうる](../documents/akira.instrumental-self-preservation-defeats-shutdown.txt)

## Documents: mentions

- [最終目標が大きく異なっても、共通の道具的目標が生じやすい](../documents/bostrom.instrumental-convergence-predicts-common-subgoals-across-many-final-goals.txt)
- [環境に対称性があると、最適方策は選択肢を保つ方向の power-seeking に傾く](../documents/turner.optimal-policies-tend-to-seek-power.txt)
- [訂正可能性は一般的な目標追求から自然には生じない](../documents/yudkowsky.corrigibility-is-anti-natural.txt)

[Corpus index](../index.txt)