James_T

Suppose an AI company is considering whether to include some particular quality X – a rule, virtue, heuristic, default, attitude, goal, or style – in a model spec. Perhaps they are considering whether their LLM should have prosocial drives. Perhaps they’re wondering if the LLM should whistleblow to help prevent...

Current model specs aim to shape the behaviors of near-present models, rather than the behaviors of models arbitrarily far into the future. OpenAI writes that their model spec aims to apply “0-3 months ahead of the present.” Anthropic’s Constitution for Claude notes that the document “is likely to change in...