As Large Language Models improve, the tokens they predict form ever more complicated and nuanced outcomes. Rob Miles and Ryan Greenblatt discuss "Alignment Faking" a paper Ryan's team created - ideas about which Rob made a series of videos on Computerphile in 2017.

The Alignment Faking paper: https://tinyurl.com/C-Paper-AlignmentFaking 

Ryan Greenblatt is chief scientist at Redwood Research (a nonprofit AI safety and security research organization): https://tinyurl.com/C-RedwoodResearch 

Rob Miles makes videos on AI Safety: https://tinyurl.com/C-RobSKMiles 

nb if the video seems a bit 'smeary' that's an artefact of attempting to cancel out the flickering of the light in the background - something I missed while shooting and have done my best to cancel out in the edit. -Sean

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