AISN #13: An interdisciplinary perspective on AI proxy failures, new competitors to ChatGPT, and prompting language models to misbehave.

<p><strong>Interdisciplinary Perspective on AI Proxy Failures</strong></p><p>In this story, we discuss a recent paper on why proxy goals fail. First, we introduce proxy gaming, and then summarize the paper’s findings. </p><p>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 platform because they’re responding to an enraging post or interacting [...]</p> <p>---</p><p><strong>Outline:</strong></p><p>(00:13) Interdisciplinary Perspective on AI Proxy Failures</p><p>(06:06) A Flurry of AI Fundraising and Model Releases</p><p>(12:53) Adversarial Inputs Make Chatbots Misbehave</p><p>(15:52) Links</p> <p>---</p> <p><b>First published:</b><br/> July 5th, 2023 </p> <p><b>Source:</b><br/> <a href="https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-13?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Source+URL+in+episode+description&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-13</a> </p> <p>---</p> <p>Want more? Check out our <a href="https://newsletter.mlsafety.org/?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Episode+description+footer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ML Safety Newsletter</a> for technical safety research.</p> <p>Narrated by <a href="https://type3.audio/?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Narrated+by+TYPE+III+AUDIO&utm_term=center_for_ai_safety&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TYPE III AUDIO</a>.</p>