Anthropic tests AIs capacity for sabotage [Video]

As the hype around generative AI continues to build, the need for robust safety regulations is only becoming more clear.

Now Anthropic—the company behind Claude AI—is looking at how its models could deceive or sabotage users. Anthropic just dropped a paper laying out their approach.

Anthropic’s latest research — titled “Sabotage Evaluations for Frontier Models” — comes from its Alignment Science team, driven by the company’s “Responsible Scaling” policy.

The goal is to gauge just how capable AI might be at misleading users or even “subverting the systems we put in place to oversee them.” The study focuses on four specific tactics: Human Decision Sabotage, Code Sabotage, Sandbagging, and Undermining Oversight.

Think of users who push ChatGPT to the limit, trying to coax it into generating inappropriate content or graphic images. These tests are all about ensuring that the AI can’t be tricked into breaking its own rules.

In the paper, Anthropic says its objective is to …