As 2024 draws to a close, we want to thank you for your continued support for AI safety and review what we’ve been able to accomplish. In this special-edition newsletter, we highlight some of our most important projects from the year. The mission of the Center for AI Safety is to reduce societal-scale risks from AI. We focus on three pillars of work: research, field-building, and advocacy. Research CAIS conducts both technical and conceptual research on AI safety. Here are some highlights from our research in 2024: Circuit Breakers. We published breakthrough research showing how circuit breakers can prevent AI models from behaving dangerously by interrupting crime-enabling outputs. In a jailbreaking competition with a prize pool of tens of thousands of dollars, it took twenty thousand attempts to jailbreak a model trained with circuit breakers. The paper was accepted to NeurIPS 2024. The WMDP Benchmark. We developed the Weapons [...] ---Outline:(00:34) Research(04:25) Advocacy(06:44) Field-Building(10:38) Looking Ahead --- First published: December 19th, 2024 Source: https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/aisn-45-center-for-ai-safety-2024 --- Want more? Check out our ML Safety Newsletter for technical safety research. Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.
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