Cross-lab monitoring—Each lab uses their own AI as the primary (e.g. Claude), and asks other labs to monitor the safety-critical activity (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, Llama, Grok). Furthermore, cross-lab monitoring would also mitigate AI-enabled coups. Note that cross-lab monitoring requires new security arrangements, such as provably-secure third-party servers.
The tech would need to be a bit messy because you’ll need to send your competitor a “zero-knowledge proof” that you are using their AI only for monitoring catastrophic actions, and not for automating R&D, without leaking what your AIs are doing.
Potential setup:
Lab A sends their critical codebase to the third-party server
Lab B sends their monitor weights to the server, and instructs it to assist only with monitoring catastrophic actions
Lab A instructs B-monitor to flag any catastrophic actions
I mention cross-lab monitoring here:
The tech would need to be a bit messy because you’ll need to send your competitor a “zero-knowledge proof” that you are using their AI only for monitoring catastrophic actions, and not for automating R&D, without leaking what your AIs are doing.
Potential setup:
Lab A sends their critical codebase to the third-party server
Lab B sends their monitor weights to the server, and instructs it to assist only with monitoring catastrophic actions
Lab A instructs B-monitor to flag any catastrophic actions