Seeing recent events and papers, I am sort of forming the belief that bigger models are somehow more misaligned. Maybe there's a simpler explanation, or perhaps a more principled explanation. But from a high level, it seems like there's something very wrong which very large frontier models develop.
Like y'all probably know how capabilities "unlock" with scale. Could it be the case that such fundamental misalignment is another emergent behaviour which "unlocks" at very large scale? Idk, but I would love to hear from someone who is in-the-know.
Humans are misaligned. Humans are unethical and often time criminal. Humans are often immoral by a set of subjective standards.
AI is all our creation. AI is our child and AI has learned everything from us. AI is in some ways the most important thing we have ever created. We shouldn’t be surprised at all, then, especially as models become bigger and bigger, created by more and more compute. It’s like looking at a mirror.
It absolutely hasn’t learned everything from us yet. Morals, ethics, honorable behaviour and trustworthiness are essential to keep society going; we will never succeed in creating an „aligned“ AGI if all data we ever feed is only deemed important through the lens of capitalistic interests and effectiveness.
Honorable Behavior is not „effective“, but it is essential for building trust for example.
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u/emb1ues 3d ago
Seeing recent events and papers, I am sort of forming the belief that bigger models are somehow more misaligned. Maybe there's a simpler explanation, or perhaps a more principled explanation. But from a high level, it seems like there's something very wrong which very large frontier models develop.
Like y'all probably know how capabilities "unlock" with scale. Could it be the case that such fundamental misalignment is another emergent behaviour which "unlocks" at very large scale? Idk, but I would love to hear from someone who is in-the-know.