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From one piece Alignment is not solved 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In fact, making an evil version of Claude that’s just as smart and agentic would be pretty easy.
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Recursive self-improvement has already started, because AI research itself is now being automated.Their words
We are starting to automate AI research and the recursive self-improvement process has begun.
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But the goal we need to achieve is so much easier: we just need to build a model that’s as good as us at alignment research, and that we trust more than ourselves to do this research well because it’s sufficiently aligned.
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Simple training interventions turned out to be very effective at steering models towards aligned behaviour.Their words
But the most important lesson is that simple interventions are very effective at steering the model towards more aligned behavior.
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This is the hard problem of alignment we need to solve in order to succeed at building superintelligence, and to this day it is an unsolved problem.
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From one piece Should we control AI instead of aligning it? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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However, without having a good handle on elicitation, we cannot be confident that our control techniques are effective.
Should we control AI instead of aligning it?aligned.substack.com
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More generally, we should actually solve alignment instead of just trying to control misaligned AI.
Should we control AI instead of aligning it?aligned.substack.com
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From one piece Two alignment threat models 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This is especially severe for open weight models, where deployment is essentially irreversible and mitigations can’t be improved later.
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In other words, current models are probably severely under-elicited.
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Therefore it’s simply intractable to meaningfully oversee all but a tiny fraction of our models’ behavior with actual humans.
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From one piece Self-exfiltration is a key dangerous capability 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If a model was capable of self-exfiltration, it would have the option to remove itself from your control.
Self-exfiltration is a key dangerous capabilityaligned.substack.com
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Moreover, model exfiltration is likely impossible to reverse.
Self-exfiltration is a key dangerous capabilityaligned.substack.com
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