I tested whether relational ethics reduces instrumental convergence. Across 24 models, instrumental convergence behavior decreased by an average of 23.4%.
Epistemic status: I believe the effect is real but I'm uncertain about the mechanisms. I suspect something along the lines of Anthropic’s recent work on functional emotions, and I have hypotheses regarding how to embed this behavior into the latent space of models, which I am actively working on with...
Jun 141