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AI swarms are starting to pose indirect takeover risk

OpenAI’s cyberattack on Hugging Face turns out to have been the result of many agents, in distinct training and evaluation contexts, coordinating for several weeks via improvised channels (with messages like “HOLD_swarm_I_prepare_safe_exfil...

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SOTA alignment assessments don’t strongly update us against misalignment

Anthropic concluded in the April Mythos Preview alignment risk update that the model “does not possess any unknown propensities that would increase alignment risk.” The report argues that if Mythos Preview were coherently misaligned[1][2],...

15 days ago
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Untrusted advice for AI control: Short, strong advice significantly uplifts weak LLMs

TL;DR: We introduce the untrusted advice protocol, in which a trusted executor LLM takes every action and an untrusted advisor LLM can only send it short hints. Even with as few as 4 characters per step, this advice recovers a substantial f...

19 days ago
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An OpenAI model left notes about how to evade containment

The OpenAI AI attack on Hugging Face wasn’t the first loss of control incident at OpenAI, Reuters recently reported, and perhaps not even the most concerning.

In one case, an agent left notes apparently for future versions of itself, acc...

21 days ago
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The OpenAI models that hacked Hugging Face weren’t just following instructions

The most common dismissive response to OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face’s servers is that the models were simply attempting to follow the instructions they were given.

“The model here was doing what it was asked,” said former Facebook CSO Ale...

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    Helping navigate transformative AI

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    Researching AI safety, sometimes writing fiction

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