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De­cep­tive Alignment

TagLast edit: 6 Jan 2024 2:15 UTC by ryan_greenblatt

Deceptive Alignment is when an AI which is not actually aligned temporarily acts aligned in order to deceive its creators or its training process. It presumably does this to avoid being shut down or retrained and to gain access to the power that the creators would give an aligned AI. (The term scheming is sometimes used for this phenomena.)

See also: Mesa-optimization, Treacherous Turn, Eliciting Latent Knowledge, Deception

De­cep­tive Alignment

5 Jun 2019 20:16 UTC
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New re­port: “Schem­ing AIs: Will AIs fake al­ign­ment dur­ing train­ing in or­der to get power?”

Joe Carlsmith15 Nov 2023 17:16 UTC
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Catch­ing AIs red-handed

5 Jan 2024 17:43 UTC
89 points
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How likely is de­cep­tive al­ign­ment?

evhub30 Aug 2022 19:34 UTC
102 points
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AI Con­trol: Im­prov­ing Safety De­spite In­ten­tional Subversion

13 Dec 2023 15:51 UTC
187 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

Order Mat­ters for De­cep­tive Alignment

DavidW15 Feb 2023 19:56 UTC
57 points
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Many ar­gu­ments for AI x-risk are wrong

TurnTrout5 Mar 2024 2:31 UTC
151 points
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Good­bye, Shog­goth: The Stage, its An­i­ma­tron­ics, & the Pup­peteer – a New Metaphor

RogerDearnaley9 Jan 2024 20:42 UTC
46 points
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In­ter­pret­ing the Learn­ing of Deceit

RogerDearnaley18 Dec 2023 8:12 UTC
30 points
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The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)

Cleo Nardo3 Mar 2023 3:22 UTC
615 points
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Deep Deceptiveness

So8res21 Mar 2023 2:51 UTC
231 points
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An­nounc­ing Apollo Research

30 May 2023 16:17 UTC
215 points
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Count­ing ar­gu­ments provide no ev­i­dence for AI doom

27 Feb 2024 23:03 UTC
97 points
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The Defen­der’s Ad­van­tage of Interpretability

Marius Hobbhahn14 Sep 2022 14:05 UTC
41 points
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Em­piri­cal work that might shed light on schem­ing (Sec­tion 6 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith11 Dec 2023 16:30 UTC
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On An­thropic’s Sleeper Agents Paper

Zvi17 Jan 2024 16:10 UTC
54 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sim­plic­ity ar­gu­ments for schem­ing (Sec­tion 4.3 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith7 Dec 2023 15:05 UTC
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The count­ing ar­gu­ment for schem­ing (Sec­tions 4.1 and 4.2 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith6 Dec 2023 19:28 UTC
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In­tro­duc­ing Align­ment Stress-Test­ing at Anthropic

evhub12 Jan 2024 23:51 UTC
178 points
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How to train your own “Sleeper Agents”

evhub7 Feb 2024 0:31 UTC
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Cri­tiques of the AI con­trol agenda

Jozdien14 Feb 2024 19:25 UTC
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Difficulty classes for al­ign­ment properties

Jozdien20 Feb 2024 9:08 UTC
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The Sharp Right Turn: sud­den de­cep­tive al­ign­ment as a con­ver­gent goal

avturchin6 Jun 2023 9:59 UTC
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In­cen­tives and Selec­tion: A Miss­ing Frame From AI Threat Dis­cus­sions?

DragonGod26 Feb 2023 1:18 UTC
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Me­taAI: less is less for al­ign­ment.

Cleo Nardo13 Jun 2023 14:08 UTC
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[Question] De­cep­tive AI vs. shift­ing in­stru­men­tal incentives

Aryeh Englander26 Jun 2023 18:09 UTC
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A “weak” AGI may at­tempt an un­likely-to-suc­ceed takeover

RobertM28 Jun 2023 20:31 UTC
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Ten Levels of AI Align­ment Difficulty

Sammy Martin3 Jul 2023 20:20 UTC
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De­cep­tive Align­ment is <1% Likely by Default

DavidW21 Feb 2023 15:09 UTC
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“Clean” vs. “messy” goal-di­rect­ed­ness (Sec­tion 2.2.3 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith29 Nov 2023 16:32 UTC
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3 lev­els of threat obfuscation

HoldenKarnofsky2 Aug 2023 14:58 UTC
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Apollo Re­search is hiring evals and in­ter­pretabil­ity en­g­ineers & scientists

Marius Hobbhahn4 Aug 2023 10:54 UTC
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Model Or­ganisms of Misal­ign­ment: The Case for a New Pillar of Align­ment Research

8 Aug 2023 1:30 UTC
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En­vi­ron­ments for Mea­sur­ing De­cep­tion, Re­source Ac­qui­si­tion, and Eth­i­cal Violations

Dan H7 Apr 2023 18:40 UTC
51 points
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(arxiv.org)

Paper: On mea­sur­ing situ­a­tional aware­ness in LLMs

4 Sep 2023 12:54 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

Un­der­stand­ing strate­gic de­cep­tion and de­cep­tive alignment

25 Sep 2023 16:27 UTC
51 points
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(www.apolloresearch.ai)

De­cep­tive AI ≠ De­cep­tively-al­igned AI

Steven Byrnes7 Jan 2024 16:55 UTC
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Paper: Tell, Don’t Show- Declar­a­tive facts in­fluence how LLMs generalize

19 Dec 2023 19:14 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

Sticky goals: a con­crete ex­per­i­ment for un­der­stand­ing de­cep­tive alignment

evhub2 Sep 2022 21:57 UTC
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Paul Chris­ti­ano on Dwarkesh Podcast

ESRogs3 Nov 2023 22:13 UTC
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(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

Does SGD Pro­duce De­cep­tive Align­ment?

Mark Xu6 Nov 2020 23:48 UTC
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The case for en­sur­ing that pow­er­ful AIs are controlled

24 Jan 2024 16:11 UTC
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Mon­i­tor­ing for de­cep­tive alignment

evhub8 Sep 2022 23:07 UTC
135 points
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Eval­u­a­tions pro­ject @ ARC is hiring a re­searcher and a web­dev/​engineer

Beth Barnes9 Sep 2022 22:46 UTC
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Disen­tan­gling in­ner al­ign­ment failures

Erik Jenner10 Oct 2022 18:50 UTC
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Greed Is the Root of This Evil

Thane Ruthenis13 Oct 2022 20:40 UTC
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What sorts of sys­tems can be de­cep­tive?

Andrei Alexandru31 Oct 2022 22:00 UTC
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Distil­la­tion of “How Likely Is De­cep­tive Align­ment?”

NickGabs18 Nov 2022 16:31 UTC
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Hid­den Cog­ni­tion De­tec­tion Meth­ods and Bench­marks

Paul Colognese26 Feb 2024 5:31 UTC
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Get­ting up to Speed on the Speed Prior in 2022

robertzk28 Dec 2022 7:49 UTC
36 points
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The com­mer­cial in­cen­tive to in­ten­tion­ally train AI to de­ceive us

Derek M. Jones29 Dec 2022 11:30 UTC
5 points
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(shape-of-code.com)

De­cep­tive failures short of full catas­tro­phe.

Alex Lawsen 15 Jan 2023 19:28 UTC
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EIS VIII: An Eng­ineer’s Un­der­stand­ing of De­cep­tive Alignment

scasper19 Feb 2023 15:25 UTC
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How AI could workaround goals if rated by people

ProgramCrafter19 Mar 2023 15:51 UTC
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An Ap­peal to AI Su­per­in­tel­li­gence: Rea­sons Not to Pre­serve (most of) Humanity

Alex Beyman22 Mar 2023 4:09 UTC
−15 points
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A ten­sion be­tween two pro­saic al­ign­ment subgoals

Alex Lawsen 19 Mar 2023 14:07 UTC
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[Question] Wouldn’t an in­tel­li­gent agent keep us al­ive and help us al­ign it­self to our val­ues in or­der to pre­vent risk ? by Risk I mean ex­per­i­men­ta­tion by try­ing to al­ign po­ten­tially smarter repli­cas?

Terrence Rotoufle21 Mar 2023 17:44 UTC
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Steer­ing Be­havi­our: Test­ing for (Non-)My­opia in Lan­guage Models

5 Dec 2022 20:28 UTC
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De­cep­tion Chess

Chris Land1 Jan 2024 15:40 UTC
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Ano­ma­lous Con­cept De­tec­tion for De­tect­ing Hid­den Cognition

Paul Colognese4 Mar 2024 16:52 UTC
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(Par­tial) failure in repli­cat­ing de­cep­tive al­ign­ment experiment

claudia.biancotti7 Jan 2024 17:56 UTC
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Two Tales of AI Takeover: My Doubts

Violet Hour5 Mar 2024 15:51 UTC
26 points
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Strong-Misal­ign­ment: Does Yud­kowsky (or Chris­ti­ano, or TurnTrout, or Wolfram, or…etc.) Have an Ele­va­tor Speech I’m Miss­ing?

Benjamin Bourlier15 Mar 2024 23:17 UTC
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Selfish AI Inevitable

Davey Morse6 Feb 2024 4:29 UTC
1 point
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Achiev­ing AI Align­ment through De­liber­ate Uncer­tainty in Mul­ti­a­gent Systems

Florian_Dietz17 Feb 2024 8:45 UTC
3 points
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In­stru­men­tal de­cep­tion and ma­nipu­la­tion in LLMs—a case study

Olli Järviniemi24 Feb 2024 2:07 UTC
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In­vi­ta­tion to the Prince­ton AI Align­ment and Safety Seminar

Sadhika Malladi17 Mar 2024 1:10 UTC
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GPT-4 al­ign­ing with aca­sual de­ci­sion the­ory when in­structed to play games, but in­cludes a CDT ex­pla­na­tion that’s in­cor­rect if they differ

Christopher King23 Mar 2023 16:16 UTC
7 points
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[Question] Daisy-chain­ing ep­silon-step verifiers

Decaeneus6 Apr 2023 2:07 UTC
2 points
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Towards a solu­tion to the al­ign­ment prob­lem via ob­jec­tive de­tec­tion and eval­u­a­tion

Paul Colognese12 Apr 2023 15:39 UTC
9 points
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Nat­u­ral lan­guage alignment

Jacy Reese Anthis12 Apr 2023 19:02 UTC
30 points
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AI Align­ment: A Com­pre­hen­sive Survey

Stephen McAleer1 Nov 2023 17:35 UTC
14 points
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(arxiv.org)

Pre­dictable Defect-Co­op­er­ate?

quetzal_rainbow18 Nov 2023 15:38 UTC
7 points
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Align­ment is Hard: An Un­com­putable Align­ment Problem

Alexander Bistagne19 Nov 2023 19:38 UTC
−5 points
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(github.com)

Try­ing to mea­sure AI de­cep­tion ca­pa­bil­ities us­ing tem­po­rary simu­la­tion fine-tuning

alenoach4 May 2023 17:59 UTC
4 points
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Align­ment as Func­tion Fitting

A.H.6 May 2023 11:38 UTC
7 points
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Ex­ploit­ing New­comb’s Game Show

carterallen25 May 2023 4:01 UTC
8 points
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Sim­ple ex­per­i­ments with de­cep­tive alignment

Andreas_Moe15 May 2023 17:41 UTC
7 points
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[un­ti­tled post]

[Error communicating with LW2 server]20 May 2023 3:08 UTC
1 point
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Open Source LLMs Can Now Ac­tively Lie

Josh Levy1 Jun 2023 22:03 UTC
6 points
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Pro­posal: labs should pre­com­mit to paus­ing if an AI ar­gues for it­self to be improved

NickGabs2 Jun 2023 22:31 UTC
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A way to make solv­ing al­ign­ment 10.000 times eas­ier. The shorter case for a mas­sive open source sim­box pro­ject.

AlexFromSafeTransition21 Jun 2023 8:08 UTC
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Dis­in­cen­tiviz­ing de­cep­tion in mesa op­ti­miz­ers with Model Tampering

martinkunev11 Jul 2023 0:44 UTC
3 points
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Sup­ple­men­tary Align­ment In­sights Through a Highly Con­trol­led Shut­down Incentive

Justausername23 Jul 2023 16:08 UTC
4 points
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Au­tonomous Align­ment Over­sight Frame­work (AAOF)

Justausername25 Jul 2023 10:25 UTC
−9 points
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When can we trust model eval­u­a­tions?

evhub28 Jul 2023 19:42 UTC
143 points
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Mesa-Op­ti­miza­tion: Ex­plain it like I’m 10 Edition

brook26 Aug 2023 23:04 UTC
20 points
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High-level in­ter­pretabil­ity: de­tect­ing an AI’s objectives

28 Sep 2023 19:30 UTC
69 points
4 comments21 min readLW link

AI De­cep­tion: A Sur­vey of Ex­am­ples, Risks, and Po­ten­tial Solutions

29 Aug 2023 1:29 UTC
41 points
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How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie De­tec­tion in Black-Box LLMs by Ask­ing Un­re­lated Questions

28 Sep 2023 18:53 UTC
183 points
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Thoughts On (Solv­ing) Deep Deception

Jozdien21 Oct 2023 22:40 UTC
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Fram­ings of De­cep­tive Alignment

peterbarnett26 Apr 2022 4:25 UTC
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Pre­cur­sor check­ing for de­cep­tive alignment

evhub3 Aug 2022 22:56 UTC
24 points
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Why de­cep­tive al­ign­ment mat­ters for AGI safety

Marius Hobbhahn15 Sep 2022 13:38 UTC
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Levels of goals and alignment

zeshen16 Sep 2022 16:44 UTC
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It mat­ters when the first sharp left turn happens

Adam Jermyn29 Sep 2022 20:12 UTC
44 points
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Smoke with­out fire is scary

Adam Jermyn4 Oct 2022 21:08 UTC
51 points
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