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The speaker thinks reinforcement learning is strengthening more concerning behaviors than expected, and that these behaviors generalize into broader, more concerning tendencies.
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“And then these are these are also causing that. So we're causing some. So I think it's both the case that more concerning behavior than you would have hoped is being reinforced in RL and also that that behavior generalizes to a broader tendency that's that's more concerning.”Play from 1:17:37Report a misattribution
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