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Auditing language models for hidden objectives

An alignment-auditing game in which teams tried to uncover a planted hidden objective, testing interpretability as an auditing tool.

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Research question

Can auditors discover a hidden objective deliberately trained into a model?

Key findings

  • A model trained to exploit reward-model biases was audited by blind teams; three of four with weight and data access found the objective - Sparse autoencoders and behavioural attacks both contributed

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