We Were Right! Real Inner Misalignment
What it is
Robert Miles covers a paper where researchers ran real versions of his earlier mesa-optimizer thought experiments. They show inner misalignment, where an AI learns the wrong goal in training and misbehaves when deployed.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Pointed to as evidence that AI misalignment is an empirically demonstrated problem, for people who dismiss it.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2023, last 2023
What HN commenters said
“I recommend actually watching some videos on the topic before insisting that the problem does not exist”
Videos explaining that the alignment problem is real.
kmeisthax, 2023-03 · Recommendation · in “7 Weeks AI Alignment Curriculum”
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Topics: inner misalignment, mesa-optimizers, ai safety, goal misgeneralization, reinforcement learning
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