Blog post by Sebastian Farquhar, David Lindner, Rohin Shah. It discusses the paper MONA: Myopic Optimization with Non-myopic Approval Can Mitigate Multi-step Reward Hacking by Sebastian Farquhar, Vikrant Varma, David Lindner, David Elson, Caleb Biddulph, Ian Goodfellow, and Rohin Shah. Our paper tries to make agents that are safer in...
We wanted to share a recap of our recent outputs with the AF community. Below, we fill in some details about what we have been working on, what motivated us to do it, and how we thought about its importance. We hope that this will help people build off things...
TL;DR: Contrast-consistent search (CCS) seemed exciting to us and we were keen to apply it. At this point, we think it is unlikely to be directly helpful for implementations of alignment strategies (>95%). Instead of finding knowledge, it seems to find the most prominent feature. We are less sure about...