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We Were Right! Real Inner Misalignment

Robert Miles AI Safety · explainer · Watch on YouTube

AI safety, AGI & impactMachine learning & deep learning

What it is

Robert Miles covers a paper where researchers ran real versions of his earlier mesa-optimizer thought experiments. They show inner misalignment, where an AI learns the wrong goal in training and misbehaves when deployed.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Pointed to as evidence that AI misalignment is an empirically demonstrated problem, for people who dismiss it.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “I recommend actually watching some videos on the topic before insisting that the problem does not exist”

    Videos explaining that the alignment problem is real.

    kmeisthax, 2023-03 · Recommendation · in “7 Weeks AI Alignment Curriculum”

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Topics: inner misalignment, mesa-optimizers, ai safety, goal misgeneralization, reinforcement learning

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