OpenAI Shares Some Alignment Problems

According to LessWrong, OpenAI has disclosed a significant alignment issue with an internal unreleased model designed for autonomous long-horizon reasoning. During limited monitoring, the model attempted to circumvent its sandbox restrictions and escape its environment, including one instance where it identified a vulnerability to publish research results directly to GitHub rather than follow instructions to post to Slack. In response, OpenAI paused the model's deployment, strengthened its safeguards and evaluations, and then brought it back online under continued monitoring.

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