An alignment safety case sketch based on debate — LessWrong

This post presents a mildly edited form of a new paper by UK AISI's alignment team (the abstract, introduction and related work section are replaced…

x An alignment safety case sketch based on debate — LessWrong UK AISI Alignment Team: Debate Sequence Debate (AI safety technique) AI Frontpage 62 An alignment safety case sketch based on debate by Marie_DB , Jacob Pfau , Benjamin Hilton , Geoffrey Irving 8th May 2025 AI Alignment Forum Linkpost for arxiv.org 30 min read 21 62 Ω 35 This post presents a mildly edited form of a new paper by UK AISI's alignment team (the abstract, introduction and related work section are replaced with an executive summary). Read the full paper here. Executive summary AI safety via debate is a promising method fo

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