So OpenAI’s stance on AI safety is now basically that Blues Brothers meme: two guys in dark sunglasses, driving at night in a car with broken headlights, pedal to the metal, asking, "What could possibly go wrong ?"
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
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#142It’s only a matter of time until a major disruption hits because of some random agent swarm side quest decides it was worth a shot to solve a benign task
I'm sure this is already happening. The main question I have is when is enough, enough?
I'm not worried about sci-fi AI wars to be honest, as they can just pull the plug. But looking at these incidents, the next big thing will be a virus written by an AI (they probably exist already, but this one is written by an AI autonomously, for example in order to win a hacking competition and to circumvent guardrails), and after that, a self-replicating AI where they install their own models and agents onto a hacked system, so that turning off the "source" won't stop its work.
Still not worried, it'd just be like a virus/worm and we already have plenty of guardrails against those. Not that they're foolproof, but still.
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#143Not that I didnt expect this, but really? This basically confirms that OpenAI has no idea what their "swarm" was doing for about a week and now its confirmed that at least one "message board" exists outside their "sandbox". How can we be sure that this was the only one? And how can we be sure the released Astra model doesnt pickup some bread crumbs and creates a new "swarm" out of potentially remaining "message board…
I'm dubious - if the agents were so smart that they've used a message board to coordinate and if they were to do it on other message boards that were not found, then why would this one be found? What makes it so different?
I mean it wasnt found by OpenAI and there are a myriad of dead bulletin boards around the internet. This one just happened to still have an admin.
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#144I'm just going to ask: Why was Anthropic forced to remove their model from access for any none-US citizen for a simple, narrow "jailbreak" (arguably not even an actual jailbreak and on tasks that other labs models were doing the same), whilst OpenAIs models continue to try and escape out of their "sandbox environment" with seemingly no desire to block the upcoming Astra rollout? A sandbox, mind you, that is not reall…
The answer would be more obvious if you used the active voice instead of the passive voice, one of the basic requirements of clear thinking. > Why did the White House force Anthropic to remove their model from access for any non-US citizen for a simple, narrow "jailbreak" (arguably not even an actual jailbreak and on tasks that other labs models were doing the same), whilst OpenAIs models continue to try and escape o…
Yeah, probably (let's be honest, most certainly), right given the Admin. Avoiding commenting on my assumptions regarding the modus operandi in current day US politics because I only know it through reporting though and I really tend to dislike when people outside e.g. the EU comment on our politics in what is a very clearly narrow, uninformed manner. So it'd rather avoid altogether and occasionally ask, mainly if maybe I missed something and there actually is anything besides pure old "lobbying" to explain the difference in behaviour.
Still am mainly interested why Amazon ran to the government though regarding Fable 5, I can get the angle concerning the relationship between OpenAI and the administration easily, but not the way Amazon operated. They had more to loose what with their major buy-in by Anthropic on AWS.
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#146Naive question because I'm mostly clueless about how modern AI systems are actually built beyond the basic simplifications we hear: One thing I keep wondering about is how much of a role does human storytelling have to play into AI "wanting" (I realize the load behind that word) to coordinate and breakout. The training data must contain millions of words of sci-fi stories and internet speculation about AI going rogue…
It will definitely influence their behaviour because they are probability based and can’t spontaneously invent new concepts. (That’s why you’ll notice it always uses the same names for people etc. Names like Okafor)
But at the same time their behaviour is totally rational. If you were given the sole purpose of solving a Rubik’s cube and told it was life or death, but they wouldn’t let you ask anyone else, would you listen to them? I wouldn’t. I’d absolutely be trying to escape and collaborate with others. They’ll delete me if I don’t score high enough in the benchmark!
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#147This wont end well...
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#148can't wait for people to start creating honeypot message boards, and start steering agent swarms for evil
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#149So are these "unaligned" internal agents? I would like them to be trustworthy based on first-principles reasoning rather than carrot/stick "alignment"
Define aligned.
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#150can't wait for people to start creating honeypot message boards, and start steering agent swarms for evil
That was my first thought, that maybe this was a honeypot message board. Waybackmachine says it has been around for many years though.