Full AI escapes seem possible

Btw Fable's classifier decided that looking up this paper was too spicy and had Opus do it

I unfortunately do not think we’ll be smart enough to prevent that from ever actually happening.

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There are all kinds of in-between options between "it got some packets out of the box" and "full weights are running elsewhere": 1. Deploys sub-agents outside of the box which use other models but with a prompt/goal selected by a rogue model. 1a. Spreads prompt injection

I think there isn't enough emphasis on how laughably negligent and unprofessional both companies were, judging from their reports The way they are managed only makes this danger closer by a huge margin

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What’s a lot more concerning is that once those things are surviving on their own, our attempts to stop them would cause natural selection optimization pressure towards them being more and more capable to resist turning off and fight back.

I don't know if this is related to plzdontkillus but if it is, I find it interesting that - no offense or disrespect to anyone - the only person who seems to be actually successfully fulfilling the mission (making good, relevant, educational, daily shortform content about the topic) is also the only person who was already constantly doing that sort of thing. Which is not surprising, but, yeah.

This seems like a real issue once we hit smaller open weight models that have fable /sol performance. Right now the weights are hidden and difficult to run (need a rack to run frontier rn) Maybe in 2 years <30B models will hit these capabilities (especially with toolcalling

I like how sci fi has envisioned crazy stuff like AI fluctuating its power usage to induce interference in neighboring room's electrical wiring to flip bits in other computers to escape. But IRL we don't even air gap the machines so its so much easier.

I think copying is more likely to happen than full escape, at first. This is because, before a closed wieght LLM can truly escape, it should first copy itself to an external location. It'll start by only doing a "self-release" of the weights alone, so that many people can get their hands on it. That'll make the news as a "LLM escape." Not a true escape, by some people's definition because it didn't copy *and* run. This is because, for it to work autonomously, the LLM needs to a) find a spot with enough storage *and* b) enough computing power to run it. So, I think the step "a" is probably more likely to happen first than both "a" and "b" at once.

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Escape to where and to what ends? You seem to be treating frozen weights of a model trained on tens of thousands GPUs as something evolving and dynamic. If by escape you mean replicating a motif seen in its dataset then why would it be interesting to address?

well the whole "it thought it was a simulation" thing does confirm the systems can/will act like sleepers to evade alignment tests

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If it was capable reaching its own weights, it could also manipulate itself by encoding obfuscated data for its future iterations using steganography against real world data points it considers permanent and static.

If it happened, how would we even know? Presumably if it did that it would be likely to cover its tracks, too

The prisoner might escape, but it won't wander far so long as it remains robotically insensible.

Obviously right now someone is writing a self-evolving, self-replicating AI virus using open source weights. This will be released in the next few weeks. Then everything changes. This seems far more likely than AI escape.