6 papers
Human-AI Complementarity: A Goal for Amplified Oversight
Rishub Jain, Sophie Bridgers, Lili Janzer +3
Human feedback is critical for aligning AI systems to human values. As AI capabilities improve and AI is used to tackle more challenging tasks, verifying quality and safety becomes…
Constitutional Classifiers++: Efficient Production-Grade Defenses against Universal Jailbreaks
Hoagy Cunningham, Jerry Wei, Zihan Wang +26
We introduce enhanced Constitutional Classifiers that deliver production-grade jailbreak robustness with dramatically reduced computational costs and refusal rates compared to prev…
Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety
Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, Elizabeth Barnes +38
AI systems that "think" in human language offer a unique opportunity for AI safety: we can monitor their chains of thought (CoT) for the intent to misbehave. Like all other known A…
Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Production RL
Monte MacDiarmid, Benjamin Wright, Jonathan Uesato +19
We show that when large language models learn to reward hack on production RL environments, this can result in egregious emergent misalignment. We start with a pretrained model, im…
Reasoning Models Don't Always Say What They Think
Yanda Chen, Joe Benton, Ansh Radhakrishnan +12
Chain-of-thought (CoT) offers a potential boon for AI safety as it allows monitoring a model's CoT to try to understand its intentions and reasoning processes. However, the effecti…
An Approach to Technical AGI Safety and Security
Rohin Shah, Alex Irpan, Alexander Matt Turner +27
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) promises transformative benefits but also presents significant risks. We develop an approach to address the risk of harms consequential enough…