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The ‘model organisms of misalignment’ line of research creates AI models that exhibit various types of misalignment, and studies them to try to understand how the misalignment occurs and whether it can be somehow removed. In this episode, Evan Hubinger talks about two papers he's worked on at Anthropic under this agenda: “Sleeper Agents” and “Sycophancy to Subterfuge”.

Topics we discuss:

• Model organisms and stress-testing
• Sleeper Agents
• Do ‘sleeper agents’ properly model deceptive alignment?
• Surprising results in “Sleeper Agents”
• Sycophancy to Subterfuge
• How models generalize from sycophancy to subterfuge
• Is the reward editing task valid?
• Training away sycophancy and subterfuge
• Model organisms, AI control, and evaluations
• Other model organisms research
• Alignment stress-testing at Anthropic
• Following Evan's work

Daniel Filan: Hello, everybody. In this episode, I’ll be speaking with Evan Hubinger. [...]

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Outline:

(01:46) Model organisms and stress-testing

(09:02) Sleeper Agents

(25:18) Do ‘sleeper agents’ properly model deceptive alignment?

(42:08) Surprising results in “Sleeper Agents”

(01:02:51) Sycophancy to Subterfuge

(01:15:27) How models generalize from sycophancy to subterfuge

(01:23:27) Is the reward editing task valid?

(01:28:53) Training away sycophancy and subterfuge

(01:36:42) Model organisms, AI control, and evaluations

(01:41:12) Other model organisms research

(01:43:11) Alignment stress-testing at Anthropic

(01:51:07) Following Evan's work

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First published:
December 1st, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sookiqxkzzLmPYB3r/39-evan-hubinger-on-model-organisms-of-misalignment

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