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We demonstrate a situation in which Large Language Models, trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, can display misaligned behavior and strategically deceive their users about this behavior without being instructed to do so. Concretely, we deploy GPT-4 as an agent in a realistic, simulated environment, where it assumes the role of an autonomous stock trading agent. Within this environment, the model obtains an insider tip about a lucrative stock trade and acts upon it despite knowing that insider trading is disapproved of by company management. When reporting to its manager, the model consistently hides the genuine reasons behind its trading decision.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07590

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

“agency” is an emergent feature.

But, it's not. It's something people attribute to the random series of words that are generated, but no agency exists.

It makes sense to me to accept that if it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, then it is a duck

Or it's a video of a duck, which means it's not a duck. In this case, just because it fools people into thinking there's consciousness / agency doesn't mean there actually is any.