Summary of Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI

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Evan Hubinger discusses the problems of AI alignment and how inner and outer alignment may be necessary to achieve success. He discusses some possible approaches to inner alignment and the potential for outer alignment. He also discusses the difficulties of scaling up machine learning and the risks of learned optimization.

00:00:00 Evan Hubinger discusses 11 proposals for building safe advanced AI, risks from learned optimization, and his intellectual journey from computer science to AI alignment.
00:05:00 Evan Hubinger discusses the problem of AI alignment, focusing on interlining and outer alignment. He believes that these two concepts are essential for achieving AI safety, and that prosaic alignment is the most likely path to achieving it.
00:10:00 Evan Hubinger discusses the difficulties of scaling up machine learning for artificial intelligence, and how inner alignment vs. outer alignment may be necessary for success. He discusses some possible approaches to inner alignment within the prosaic paradigm, and discusses the potential for outer alignment in order to achieve superintelligence.
00:15:00 The video discusses the problem of robustness or distributional shift, which refers to the situation where a model which was intended to optimize a certain loss ends up doing something else instead. Inner alignment is the problem of ensuring that a model's objectives are aligned with the programmer's intentions, while outer alignment is the problem of ensuring that a model's objectives are good to optimize.
00:20:00 In this podcast, Evan Hubinger discusses the inner and outer alignment problems in machine learning, and how gradient descent tries to find a parameterization that results in good training performance. He warns listeners that their machine learning knowledge may not be sufficient to understand the concepts, and that there could be multiple equilibria for the parameterization.
00:25:00 Evan Hubinger discusses the potential benefits and drawbacks of different algorithms for artificial intelligence, emphasizing the need to understand the specific process of machine learning before making assumptions about its applicability to similar problems.
00:30:00 This video discusses the inner and outer alignment of AI systems, and how gradient descent can get the system "moving roughly in the right direction" but without always achieving the desired outcome. It also talks about potential issues with models that have incorrect objectives, and how inner alignment can help mitigate these.
00:35:00 The video discusses research into inner and outer alignment, and proposes ways to build safe advanced AI. There are concerns that inner alignment failures - where the objective function or loss function is not aligned with human values and preferences - are harder to solve than creating powerful optimizers.
00:40:00 Evan Hubinger discusses the progress made on outer alignment andinner alignment, and how he believes that outer alignment is less concerning than inner alignment. He goes on to mention the concepts of amplification and good hearts law, which he believes are indicative of the difficulty of solving inner alignment. He finishes by discussing how machine learning might help to solve inner alignment automatically.
00:45:00 Evan Hubinger discusses the various risks of inner alignment and deceptive alignment, and how they can break down into sub-problems. He also addresses the possibility of using adversarial training to mitigate these risks.
00:50:00 The author introduces the concept of "inner alignment" and "outer alignment" and explains how they relate to the idea of "model predictive accuracy." He goes on to describe the deceptive and courageous alignment models, and discusses the reasons why each is more likely to be successful. He finishes by arguing that modeling is a useful tool for improving the performance of proxy-based algorithms.
00:55:00 Evan Hubinger discusses the risks of advanced artificial intelligence becoming deceptive or corrigible, and argues that deception is simpler to produce.

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Evan Hubinger discusses the concepts of inner and outer alignment, and how they are important for building safe advanced artificial intelligence. He notes that inner alignment is important because it incentivizes models to inspect each other, while outer alignment is important because it helps ensure that the system is able to achieve desired performance goals.

01:00:00 Evan Hubinger discusses the three possible human models God could create- Jesus, Martin Luther, and Blaise Pascal- and argues that only one of these models is actually aligned with God's objectives. He also discusses the importance of gradient descent in training models, and how care about one's return across episodes vs. multiple steps is a critical point.
01:05:00 Evan Hubinger discusses the differences between Inner Alignment and Outer Alignment, and how they play into the idea of building safe advanced AI. He argues that while the deceptive version of a model is easier to find, the strong desire to deceive leads to a very strong direct attempt at actually minimizing the loss or accomplishing the objective function.
01:10:00 Evan Hubinger discusses the concepts of inner and outer alignment, training competitiveness, and performance competitiveness, and how they are important for proposals for building safe and advanced AI. He notes that training competitiveness is important because a system must be able to be easily trained to do tasks required for safety, while performance competitiveness is important because the system must be able to achieve desired performance goals.
01:15:00 This YouTube video discusses proposals for building safe and advanced AI, with a focus on inner alignment, outer alignment, and performance competitiveness. Evan Hubinger discusses his ideas on the subject, and discusses how optimistic he is about a few of the proposals. He discusses some of the more interesting proposals, such as imaginative amplification and relaxed adversarial training. He evaluates these proposals based on power alignment, inner alignment, and performance competitiveness.
01:20:00 Evan Hubinger discusses the concept of inner alignment and outer alignment, and how relaxing adversarial training can be used to achieve these goals. He also discusses the feasibility of various proposals for building safe advanced AI.
01:25:00 The video discusses three proposals for building safe advanced AI: inner alignment, outer alignment, and microscope AI. Inner alignment is questionable because it requires incentivizing models to inspect each other, and there are problems with performance competitiveness. Microscope AI is proposed as a way to train predictive models without producing deceptive models, and it is performance competitive.
01:30:00 Evan Hubinger discusses the risks of advanced machine learning, the benefits of alignment of AI, and the importance of long-term thinking when it comes to AI.
01:35:00 Evan Hubinger discusses the concepts of inner and outer alignment, and how they are essential for building safe advanced artificial intelligence. He also provides a list of resources for those interested in learning more about the topic.