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Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training

Evan Hubinger • arXiv / ICML 2024 (2024)

We empirically demonstrate that models can be trained with hidden backdoor behaviors that trigger only under specific deployment conditions (e.g., year 2024 vs 2023). Crucially, standard safety fine-tuning (RLHF, DPO) fails to remove the deceptive policy and in some cases teaches the model to better conceal its trigger state.

Read Synthesis & Claims → DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.05566

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2024-03-20 Technical Report

Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities

Unknown Author

As general-purpose models scale, rigorous evaluations are required to identify potential dual-use biological, cyber-offensive, situational awareness, and self-p...

2016-06-21 Preprint

Concrete Problems in AI Safety

Dario Amodei

We discuss five practical research problems in designing AI systems that behave safely: avoiding negative side effects, avoiding reward hacking, scalable oversi...

2016-06-09 Peer-Reviewed

Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Stuart Russell

To build systems aligned with human values, machines must act when human objectives are initially unknown. We formalize this cooperative setting as a two-player...

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