The speaker recounts an Anthropic study in which researchers removed training data related to LessWrong discussions of misalignment and reran a test, observing a lower failure rate.

“Did you guys see the anthropic research where, I think this is literally anthropic did that test,”

“it took, I can't remember the details here, but they ran some studies on misalignment and then they took out the training data that related to less wrong discussing misalignment and they ran the same test.”

“test again and the failure rate went down so it in fact was some evidence pointing towards it had learnt”