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“Apollo Research 1-year update” by Marius Hobbhahn, Lee Sharkey, Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Mikita Balesni, Jérémy Scheurer, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, StefanHex, jake_mendel, AlexMeinke, rusheb


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Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.

This is a linkpost for: www.apolloresearch.ai/blog/the-first-year-of-apollo-research

About Apollo Research

Apollo Research is an evaluation organization focusing on risks from deceptively aligned AI systems. We conduct technical research on AI model evaluations and interpretability and have a small AI governance team. As of 29 May 2024, we are one year old.

Executive Summary

For the UK AI Safety Summit, we developed a demonstration that Large Language Models (LLMs) can strategically deceive their primary users when put under pressure. The accompanying paper was referenced by experts and the press (e.g. AI Insight forum, BBC, Bloomberg) and accepted for oral presentation at the ICLR LLM agents workshop.

The evaluations team is currently working on capability evaluations for precursors of deceptive alignment, scheming model organisms, and a responsible scaling policy (RSP) on deceptive alignment. Our goal is to help governments and [...]

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Outline:

(00:22) About Apollo Research

(00:44) Executive Summary

(03:01) Completed work

(03:04) Evaluations

(05:17) Interpretability

(07:21) Governance

(09:09) Current and Future work

(09:13) Evaluations

(10:36) Interpretability

(11:27) Governance

(12:35) Operational Highlights

(13:23) Challenges

(15:55) Forward Look

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First published:

May 29th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qK79p9xMxNaKLPuog/apollo-research-1-year-update

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