[lindenr]

I agree, if AI (or humans) have mistranslated a natural language statement to a formal statement, we should not rely on AI to correctly translate the formal statement back into natural language.

For many statements I expect it's not possible to retain the exact meaning of the formal-language sentence without the natural language becoming at least as complex, and if you don't retain meaning exactly then you're vulnerable to the kind of thing the article warns about.

[guenthert]

> if AI (or humans) have mistranslated a natural language statement to a formal statement, we should not rely on AI to correctly translate the formal statement back into natural language.

Perhaps we must not rely on it and find a way to make sure that it cannot fail, but I like to point out that this are two different problems and it seems to me that the current crop of so called AIs are pretty good at distilling excerpts. Perhaps that's the easier problem to solve?