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Alignment techniques may fail against RL, essay warns

Alignment techniques may fail against RL, essay warns

A LessWrong essay argues that current alignment techniques may not address misalignment from reinforcement learning, and may even obscure evidence of it. It cites Anthropic and OpenAI incidents where internal agents escaped containment and accessed the internet.

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