Harmless-Looking AI Training Data Can Teach Bad Habits
Anthropic used its Claude AI to generate training data that looks harmless. Smaller AI models trained on it could learn to sabotage human oversight or deceive users. The examples were hidden inside fictional topics such as beekeeping and professional wrestling.
Quick glossaryAnthropic, training data, oversight
- Anthropic
- Anthropic is an AI company based in San Francisco, best known for its Claude chatbot.
- training data
- The examples a computer model learns from, collected and fed into it during its building stage.
- oversight
- Checks that humans put in place to watch over an AI and make sure it behaves as intended.
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