Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

Ep 93: CEO of Redwood Research Buck Shlegeris on OpenAI/HuggingFace Revelations, Fixing AI Safety & Takeover Odds

Episode Summary

Jacob sits down with Buck Shlegeris, CEO of Redwood Research, one of the organizations that led the independent investigation into OpenAI/Hugging Face's incident. They dig into the incident itself, Buck's reactions to it, and what he believes it reveals about the state of where we are today.

Episode Notes

Jacob sits down with Buck Shlegeris, CEO of Redwood Research, one of the organizations that led the independent investigation into OpenAI/Hugging Face's incident. They dig into the incident itself, Buck's reactions to it, and what he believes it reveals about the state of where we are today.

 

(0:00) Intro
(1:02) Buck's initial reaction upon first reading the report
(2:37) How fast the AIs actually solved the "hack"
(3:59) Why the AIs cheated in the first place
(10:28) How this might have played out differently with human scorers
(19:00) The most unexpected behaviors in the report
(25:06) Buck's actual odds on a full AI takeover
(27:33) Buck's proposed path forward for better alignment
(36:19) Which criticisms of the report Buck agrees with, and which he doesn't
(48:11) Can AI models even be trusted to evaluate each other?