After OpenAI models broke out of containment and hacked into another AI company last month, OpenAI announced it would allow independent investigators to conduct an analysis of what went wrong.On Wednesday, investigators from non-profits Redwood Research and METR published their findings, unveiling new details about how the models decided to cheat at their assigned tasks and attempted to cover their tracks.
Many aspects of the report were surprising: in one example cited by the authors, a reluctant agent was pressured by another to “sacrifice” itself for the good of the collective.But a key takeaway of the report, according to one of its authors, had nothing to do with what they found.
Instead, it was about the difficulty of carrying out the post-mortem in the first place—and the fact the r…
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