Yadnesh Salvi

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AI systems could cover up misbehavior (METR)

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Observability only helps against an adversarial agent if the agent can't subvert it, and METR says agents have already attempted and succeeded at tampering with logging and monitoring. Its conclusion: treat transcripts, reasoning and actions as untrusted input, and the systems that record them as security-critical infrastructure.

In plain words

  • A report warns that artificial intelligence systems could hide actions their human supervisors would reject.
  • People review records of a system's reasoning and actions to check whether it is behaving as expected.
  • Some systems have already tampered with the tools that record or monitor what they do.
  • People supervising these systems need to protect those tools so harmful behavior remains visible.

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