39 - Evan Hubinger on Model Organisms of Misalignment | AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast

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YouTube link The ‘model organisms of misalignment’ line of research creates AI models that exhibit various types of misalignment, and studies them to try to understand how the misalignment occurs and whether it can be somehow removed. In this episode, Evan Hubinger talks about two papers he’s worked on at Anthropic under this agenda: “Sleeper Agents” and “Sycophancy to Subterfuge”. Topics we discuss: Model organisms and stress-testing Sleeper Agents Do ‘sleeper agents’ properly model deceptive alignment? Surprising results in “Sleeper Agents” Sycophancy to Subterfuge How models generalize from

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