Redwood Research blog
Buck Shlegeris, Ryan Greenblatt, Alex Mallen, Julian Stastny, Kerrick Staley, Alexa Pan, James Lucassen, Adam Kaufman, Anders Cairns Woodruff, Aryan Bhatt, Tyler, Eric Gan, Arun JoseWe research catastrophic AI risks and techniques that could be used to mitigate them.
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Incriminating misaligned AI models via distillation
Suppose we have a dangerous misaligned AI that can fool alignment audits, and distill it into a student model. Two things can happen:
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Misalignment fails to transfer to the student. If so, we get a fairly capable benign model.
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Risk reports need to address deployment-time spread of misalignment
Risk reports commonly use pre-deployment alignment assessments to measure misalignment risk from an internally deployed AI. However, an AI that genuinely starts out with largely benign motivations can develop widespread dangerous motivation...
How useful is the information you get from working inside an AI company?
This post was drafted by Buck, and substantially edited by Anders. “I” refers to Buck. Thanks to Alex Mallen for comments.
People who work inside AI companies get access to information that I only get later or never. Quantitatively, how bi...
A review of “Investigating the consequences of accidentally grading CoT during RL”
Last week, OpenAI staff shared an early draft of Investigating the consequences of accidentally grading CoT during RL with Redwood Research staff.
To start with, I appreciate them publishing this post. I think it is valuable for AI compani...
Risk from fitness-seeking AIs: mechanisms and mitigations
Current AIs routinely take unintended actions to score well on tasks: hardcoding test cases, training on the test set, downplaying issues, etc. This misalignment is still somewhat incoherent, but it increasingly resembles what I call “fitne...
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