‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us?
TL;DR
We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that machines can now do the same is deeply unsettling. Researchers are racing to find solutions before it’s too late The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now.
Nauti's Take
This is one of the few well researched pieces on model deception, and the field looks promising enough that Anthropic and OpenAI now fund dedicated teams for it. The catch is the framing: isolated lab findings read like intent when they often just reflect badly specified objectives.
For companies already running agents in production, it is still the right moment to take logging and approval gates seriously.
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