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23 - Mechanistic Anomaly Detection with Mark Xu

AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast

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The Importance of Mechanistic Anomalies in Training

The hope is that if you do mechanistic anomaly detection relative to a data set of size a million, then you're like false positive rate is order of one over a million. And so as long as you have this like IID assumption, then you can in fact flag everything that you've like never seen before as anomalous while maintaining a false positive rate that's still relatively low and bounded perhaps by like one over your training set size. But suppose that you have this data set where the AI like never murders all humans. Then in some sense, your AI like can't murder all the humans with a rate much more than one over amillion or elselike you would have seen it happen

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