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Discovering Language Model Behaviors with Model-Written Evaluations
Ethan Perez, Sam Ringer, Kamilė Lukošiūtė +60
As language models (LMs) scale, they develop many novel behaviors, good and bad, exacerbating the need to evaluate how they behave. Prior work creates evaluations with crowdwork (w…
Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
Yuntao Bai, Saurav Kadavath, Sandipan Kundu +48
As AI systems become more capable, we would like to enlist their help to supervise other AIs. We experiment with methods for training a harmless AI assistant through self-improveme…
(QA): Question Answering with Questionable Assumptions
Najoung Kim, Phu Mon Htut, Samuel R. Bowman +1
Naturally occurring information-seeking questions often contain questionable assumptions -- assumptions that are false or unverifiable. Questions containing questionable assumption…
Measuring Progress on Scalable Oversight for Large Language Models
Samuel R. Bowman, Jeeyoon Hyun, Ethan Perez +43
Developing safe and useful general-purpose AI systems will require us to make progress on scalable oversight: the problem of supervising systems that potentially outperform us on m…
Two-Turn Debate Doesn't Help Humans Answer Hard Reading Comprehension Questions
Alicia Parrish, Harsh Trivedi, Nikita Nangia +4
The use of language-model-based question-answering systems to aid humans in completing difficult tasks is limited, in part, by the unreliability of the text these systems generate.…
Red Teaming Language Models to Reduce Harms: Methods, Scaling Behaviors, and Lessons Learned
Deep Ganguli, Liane Lovitt, Jackson Kernion +33
We describe our early efforts to red team language models in order to simultaneously discover, measure, and attempt to reduce their potentially harmful outputs. We make three main…
What Do NLP Researchers Believe? Results of the NLP Community Metasurvey
Julian Michael, Ari Holtzman, Alicia Parrish +8
We present the results of the NLP Community Metasurvey. Run from May to June 2022, the survey elicited opinions on controversial issues, including industry influence in the field,…
Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know
Saurav Kadavath, Tom Conerly, Amanda Askell +33
We study whether language models can evaluate the validity of their own claims and predict which questions they will be able to answer correctly. We first show that larger models a…
Single-Turn Debate Does Not Help Humans Answer Hard Reading-Comprehension Questions
Alicia Parrish, Harsh Trivedi, Ethan Perez +4
Current QA systems can generate reasonable-sounding yet false answers without explanation or evidence for the generated answer, which is especially problematic when humans cannot r…
What Makes Reading Comprehension Questions Difficult?
Saku Sugawara, Nikita Nangia, Alex Warstadt +1
For a natural language understanding benchmark to be useful in research, it has to consist of examples that are diverse and difficult enough to discriminate among current and near-…