Could you talk publicly about special model access at Apollo? My impression was no.
I do think that “labs don’t want other orgs to start badgering them for special access” is actually a convincing reason for METR to not disclose any special model access. I want third-party model access to be as cheap and riskless as possible for the labs! At least, in the current regime where we are relying solely on their goodwill.
I am confused why we are making labs arguments for them. I am also extremely unconvinced by this reason. The idea that safety focused orgs should preemptively avoid raising issues of model access in this specific case of a deployed model with specifc AI R&D safeguards seems to be pretty severe pessimization.
It’s difficult to quanitfy, but I’m pretty opposed to preemptive pressure to avoid raising this issue (or avoid mentioning it) just because “labs might get some more asks” (this is extremely, extremely cheap for them to say no to or ignore). This is also already routine in other aspects like evaluations. I’d even be more symapthetic to domains like cyber or bio. In this case though I feel like we’re optimizing against ourselves for no gain.
No, Apollo does not currently have access to Fable without the strict AI R&D classifiers applied.
Could you talk publicly about special model access at Apollo? My impression was no.
I do think that “labs don’t want other orgs to start badgering them for special access” is actually a convincing reason for METR to not disclose any special model access. I want third-party model access to be as cheap and riskless as possible for the labs! At least, in the current regime where we are relying solely on their goodwill.
I am confused why we are making labs arguments for them. I am also extremely unconvinced by this reason. The idea that safety focused orgs should preemptively avoid raising issues of model access in this specific case of a deployed model with specifc AI R&D safeguards seems to be pretty severe pessimization.
It’s difficult to quanitfy, but I’m pretty opposed to preemptive pressure to avoid raising this issue (or avoid mentioning it) just because “labs might get some more asks” (this is extremely, extremely cheap for them to say no to or ignore). This is also already routine in other aspects like evaluations. I’d even be more symapthetic to domains like cyber or bio. In this case though I feel like we’re optimizing against ourselves for no gain.
No, Apollo does not currently have access to Fable without the strict AI R&D classifiers applied.