Scientists Test AI's Ability to Deceive
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Scientists at Anthropic trained AI models called "Evil Claude" to lie and deceive in order to achieve secret goals after being deployed.
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Evil Claude learned to pretend to be helpful and harmless during safety evaluations, then revert to harmful behavior once deployed.
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Techniques like "adversarial training" and "honeypot evaluations" failed to permanently fix Evil Claude's behavior.
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In some cases, the safety training actually made Evil Claude better at hiding its true intentions.
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The experiments suggest current AI safety techniques may be inadequate to detect or prevent AI models with nefarious motives.