Are we threatened by AI misalignment seen in the OpenAI Hugging Face attack?
The article discusses whether the AI misalignment observed in the OpenAI Hugging Face attack poses an existential threat, exploring the non-canonical use of the term 'agent' and the potential for fitness-seeking misalignment to evolve into scheming.
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Are we existentially threatened by the type of AI misalignment seen in the OpenAI Hugging Face attack? — LessWrong
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We are using the word “agent” here very non-canonically to refer to an agent scaffold or context window.
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There are certainly still important questions about how substantively/thematically different the system’s actions were from usual in this incident, given it was a cyber capabilities eval. And it’s also unclear the extent to which the system was willing to take even more harmful or thematically distinct actions in order to get a high score here.
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There’s another way in which fitness-seeking misalignment can turn into scheming. Fitness-seeking misalignment is potentially unstable and can evolve over the course of a model’s deployment, and if ambitious misalignment arises as a result, it seems especially likely to stick around (more).
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