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AI Deception: Examples, Risks, Solutions

AI deception is the topic of a new paper from researchers at and affiliated with the Center for AI Safety. It surveys empirical examples of AI deception, then explores societal risks and potential solutions.

The paper defines deception as “the systematic production of false beliefs in others as a means to accomplish some outcome other than the truth.” Importantly, this definition doesn't necessarily imply that AIs have beliefs or intentions. Instead, it focuses on patterns of behavior that regularly cause false beliefs and would be considered deceptive if exhibited by humans.

Deception by Meta’s CICERO AI. Meta developed the AI system CICERO to play Diplomacy, a game where players build and betray alliances in [...]

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Outline:

(00:11) AI Deception: Examples, Risks, Solutions

(04:35) Proliferation of Large Language Models

(09:25) Continuing Drivers of AI Capabilities

(14:30) Links

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First published:
August 29th, 2023

Source:
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-20

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