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Alex Imas

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

I feel like we've seen these sorts of things that you've mentioned with previous models that have since become open weights and open, not open source, but open weights.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And it just seems like once you take them out of the context that they were in for that specific test, they don't really do.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Now, I could be wrong about this particular model and I could be completely wrong about, look, mythos comes out and it's actually everything that these documents are suggesting.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

But given previous experience with these sorts of announcements, which we've seen over and over and over again over the years, I'm not super focused on that.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Here's my counterpoint.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Let's look at the specific comparative static of model intelligence and alignment scores.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Okay.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

He predicts negative correlation or maybe flat.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

It's positive.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

The more, the smarter these models are getting, the more aligned they're becoming.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Now, I'm not saying that there's not going to be a super smart model that decides, hey, I'm actually unaligned.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

This is actually a super important point.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

If you guys remember Mecca Hitler?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Mecca Hitler was actually super dumb.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

But the thing is when you make โ€“ the model โ€“ the reason it's becoming smart is because it's kind of absorbing all of human content to a larger extent than human content has values and ethics as part of it.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

If you go in there and lobotomize it in a way that โ€“

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

what that model, the reason it started acting like Mecha Hitler is because they were trying to make it less woke, right?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So that's the equivalent of lobotomizing a human being and saying, hey, I'm gonna take that part out of its brain.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Guess what happens to that person?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

He gets real dumb.