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Experiments with Detecting and Mitigating AI Deception

Year: 2023
Type: preprint
Abstract: How to detect and mitigate deceptive AI systems is an open problem for the field of safe and trustworthy AI. We analyse two algorithms for mitigating deception: The first is based on the path-specific objectives framework where paths in the game that incentivise deception are removed. The second is based on shielding, i.e., monitoring for unsafe policies and replacing them with a safe reference policy. We construct two simple games and evaluate our algorithms empirically. We find that both methods ensure that our agent is not deceptive, however, shielding tends to achieve higher reward.
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4382323487
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