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Sabotage Evaluations for Frontier Models
Joe Benton, Misha Wagner, Eric Christiansen +13
Sufficiently capable models could subvert human oversight and decision-making in important contexts. For example, in the context of AI development, models could covertly sabotage e…
Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models
Carson Denison, Monte MacDiarmid, Fazl Barez +11
In reinforcement learning, specification gaming occurs when AI systems learn undesired behaviors that are highly rewarded due to misspecified training goals. Specification gaming c…
Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training
Evan Hubinger, Carson Denison, Jesse Mu +36
Humans are capable of strategically deceptive behavior: behaving helpfully in most situations, but then behaving very differently in order to pursue alternative objectives when giv…