TL;DR: Current LLMs are bad communicators relative to their agentic capabilities. I claim that articulacy is useful (and perhaps necessary) for AI safety and suggest a path for improving articulacy. Briefly: a theory for articulacy Frequently, LLM agents miscommunicate with their human operators, such as when they write documentation or...
I, along with many others in AI safety, believe there is a shortage of generalists in the community and that there exist many projects and efforts that by default will not happen unless they are owned by a strong generalist[1][2][3]. As someone who is a reasonably good generalist, I decided...
Thanks to Ezra Newman for initial ideation and various people at Apollo Research for feedback. This short personal piece does not necessarily reflect the views of Apollo Research. AI labs are preparing to automate their internal staff over the next year. Right now, control and sabotage evals try to estimate...
Yesterday, Twitter user arb8020 posted this: It went semi-viral within AI Twitter and users began experimenting with "goblin mode" and hypothesizing about the source of the bizarre behavior. LM Arena provided evidence for the phenomenon from their traffic: > "It's true. Here's a plot of GPT models and their usage...