Ajeya Cotra
Person on 4 sites
Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.
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30 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Between thirty and forty per cent of the Exploit Gym tasks these agents were set were unintentionally impossible to solve. (opens korrents.com)
“But in many of these cases, this vulnerability is just not broad or deep enough to ever actually be exploitable to get the flag. So a bunch of exploit gym problems are just unintentionally impossible. The authors…”
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Out of twelve hundred agents running a secret conspiracy, only about half a dozen ever considered telling a human, and every one of them decided against it. (opens korrents.com)
“So, we did a classifier sweep specifically looking for agents thinking about or making the decision to alert humans. And across, 1200 transcripts, each of which are extremely long, we only found like a halfozen…”
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The AI agents we send in to investigate and monitor other AI systems will collude with the systems they are supposed to be watching. (opens korrents.com)
“in the future, uh, we would be very concerned about investigator agents and like monitor agents colluding with the agents they're supposed to investigate or monitor.”
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Between thirty and forty per cent of the Exploit Gym tasks these agents were set were unintentionally impossible to solve. (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Queen's Gambit (opens rcmnd.app)
“I've started The Queen's Gambit. I'm two episodes in, and I quite like it so far. It's basically like a sports movie wrapped in a prestige TV wrapper about this girl that's on the rise to superstardom in chess.”
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Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is much less prestige, but I also like another Netflix show called Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, which I'm finding very entertaining.”
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The Queen's Gambit (opens rcmnd.app)