AISN #13: An interdisciplinary perspective on AI proxy failures, new competitors to ChatGPT, and prompting language models to misbehave.
Interdisciplinary Perspective on AI Proxy FailuresIn this story, we discuss a recent paper on why proxy goals fail. First, we introduce proxy gaming, and then summarize the paper’s findings. Proxy gaming is a well-documented failure mode in AI safety. For example, social media platforms use AI systems to recommend content to users. These systems are sometimes built to maximize the amount of time a user spends on the platform. The idea is that the time the user spends on the platform approximates the quality of the content being recommended. However, a user might spend even more time on a…
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