> It would be super easy to rewrite the paper to omit the unfounded speculation about human cognition. In the introduction of “The triggers are not contextual so humans ignore them when instructed to solve the problem.” they could write “The triggers are not contextual so the AI should ignore them when instructed to solve the problem.”

Another option would be to more explicitly mark it as speculation. “The triggers are not contextual, so we expect most humans would ignore them.”

Anyway, it is a small detail that is almost irrelevant to the paper… actually there seems to be something meta about that. Maybe we wouldn’t ignore the cat facts!