“Would catching your AIs trying to escape convince AI developers to slow down or undeploy?” by Buck Shlegeris

Subtitle: I'm not so sure..

[Crossposted from LessWrong]

I often talk to people who think that if frontier models were egregiously misaligned and powerful enough to pose an existential threat, you could get AI developers to slow down or undeploy models by producing evidence of their misalignment. I'm not so sure. As an extreme thought experiment, I’ll argue this could be hard even if you caught your AI red-handed trying to escape.

Imagine you're running an AI lab at the point where your AIs are able to automate almost all intellectual labor; the AIs are now mostly being deployed internally to do AI R&D. (If you want a concrete picture here, I'm imagining that there are 10 million parallel instances, running at 10x human speed, working 24/7. See e.g. similar calculations here). And suppose (as I think is 35% likely) that these models are egregiously misaligned and are [...]

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First published:
August 26th, 2024

Source:
https://redwoodresearch.substack.com/p/would-catching-your-ais-trying-to

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