Suppose we're worried about AIs engaging in long-term plans that they don't tell us about. If we were to peek inside their brains, what should we look for to check whether this was happening? In this episode Adrià Garriga-Alonso talks about his work trying to answer this question. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/axrpodcast Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/axrpodcast Transcript: https://axrp.net/episode/2025/01/20/episode-38_5-adria-garriga-alonso-detecting-ai-scheming.html FAR.AI: https://far.ai/ FAR.AI on X (aka Twitter): https://x.com/farairesearch FAR.AI on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FARAIResearch The Alignment Workshop: https://www.alignment-workshop.com/ Topics we discuss, and timestamps: 01:04 - The Alignment Workshop 02:49 - How to detect scheming AIs 05:29 - Sokoban-solving networks taking time to think 12:18 - Model organisms of long-term planning 19:44 - How and why to study planning in networks Links: Adrià's website: https://agarri.ga/ An investigation of model-free planning: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03559 Model-Free Planning: https://tuphs28.github.io/projects/interpplanning/ Planning in a recurrent neural network that plays Sokoban: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15421 Episode art by Hamish Doodles: hamishdoodles.com

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