AI Safety Newsletter
AISN #13: An interdisciplinary perspective on AI proxy failures, new competitors to ChatGPT, and prompting language models to misbehave.
05 Jul 2023
Interdisciplinary Perspective on AI Proxy FailuresIn this story, we discuss a recent paper on why proxy goals fail. First, we introduce proxy gaming, and then summarize the paper’s findings. Proxy gaming is a well-documented failure mode in AI safety. For example, social media platforms use AI systems to recommend content to users. These systems are sometimes built to maximize the amount of time a user spends on the platform. The idea is that the time the user spends on the platform approximates the quality of the content being recommended. However, a user might spend even more time on a platform because they’re responding to an enraging post or interacting [...] ---Outline:(00:13) Interdisciplinary Perspective on AI Proxy Failures(06:06) A Flurry of AI Fundraising and Model Releases(12:53) Adversarial Inputs Make Chatbots Misbehave(15:52) Links --- First published: July 5th, 2023 Source: https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-13 --- Want more? Check out our ML Safety Newsletter for technical safety research. Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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