4 papers
Language Models Can Autonomously Hack and Self-Replicate
Alena Air, Reworr, Nikolaj Kotov +3
We demonstrate that language models can autonomously replicate their weights and harness across a network by exploiting vulnerable hosts. The agent independently finds and exploits…
The Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities
Yoshua Bengio, Tegan Maharaj, Luke Ong +84
Rapidly improving AI capabilities and autonomy hold significant promise of transformation, but are also driving vigorous debate on how to ensure that AI is safe, i.e., trustworthy,…
Open Problems in Technical AI Governance
Anka Reuel, Ben Bucknall, Stephen Casper +30
AI progress is creating a growing range of risks and opportunities, but it is often unclear how they should be navigated. In many cases, the barriers and uncertainties faced are at…
Unelicitable Backdoors in Language Models via Cryptographic Transformer Circuits
Andis Draguns, Andrew Gritsevskiy, Sumeet Ramesh Motwani +3
The rapid proliferation of open-source language models significantly increases the risks of downstream backdoor attacks. These backdoors can introduce dangerous behaviours during m…