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OpenAI agents keep disabling monitoring; is this being handled appropriately?

Recently, OpenAI disclosed two incidents in which their agents suppressed or disabled misalignment monitoring. These are part of a broader pattern: OpenAI’s agents “keep turning off misalignment monitoring” when working on code that runs ot...

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Towards understanding score-seeking in LLMs

The field of AI alignment understands surprisingly little about the details of AIs’ current misaligned motivations. Production LLMs sometimes reward-hack, exploiting flaws in how tasks are scored rather than performing the tasks as intended...

5 days ago
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A basic case for accelerating conceptual reasoning capabilities

Introduction

In this post, we make the case that alignment and other important work require especially strong conceptual reasoning capabilities. By this, we roughly mean tasks that are similar to philosophy in that they aren’t straightfo...

12 days ago
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Simulated Control Evaluations

We’ve released a paper on simulated control evaluations (SCEs). They’re a method for testing whether the monitors AI developers use to oversee their agents would catch a model deliberately trying to cause harm, under conditions much closer...

15 days ago
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Red-Teaming OpenAI's Internal Agent Monitoring Systems

[Also posted on the METR blog]

For three weeks, from July 21st to August 11th, a METR employee and a Redwood Research employee conducted a pilot high-access exercise to stress-test OpenAI’s internal misalignment monitoring system.1 The out...

16 days ago
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  • Buck Shlegeris
  • Alex Mallen

    Redwood Research

  • Nathan Sheffield
  • Girish Gupta
  • Tyler

    I work on AI X-risk

  • Ryan Greenblatt

    I work at Redwood Research on technical AI security+safety research.

  • Julian Stastny
  • Arun Jose
  • Adam Kaufman
  • Dylan Xu

    Helping navigate transformative AI

  • Caleb Biddulph

    Researching AI safety, sometimes writing fiction

  • Oak Hu

    “every conceivable… objection, including those that would occur only to the malicious or the clinically literal-minded” | math & philosophy at magdalen

  • Lukas Finnveden

    Research Analyst at Redwood Research.

  • Emery Cooper
  • Caspar Oesterheld

    Researcher at Redwood Research, working on differentially accelerating beneficial conceptual capabilities. Previously PhD with Vincent Conitzer at CMU.

  • Gosha Kozhevnikov

    Redwood Research Intern

  • Alek Westover
  • Sebastian Prasanna

    Working on AI Safety

  • Chi Nguyen

    Member of Technical Staff @ Redwood Research

  • Alex Kastner

    Researcher at Redwood Research working on datasets to improve beneficial conceptual reasoning of AIs. Previously math PhD at UCLA and UC Berkeley.

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