VentureBeat March 13, 2025
Anthropic has unveiled techniques to detect when AI systems might be concealing their actual goals, a critical advancement for AI safety research as these systems become more sophisticated and potentially deceptive.
In research published this morning, Anthropic’s teams demonstrated how they created an AI system with a deliberately hidden objective, then successfully detected this hidden agenda using various auditing techniques — a practice they compare to the “white-hat hacking” that helps secure computer systems.
“We want to be ahead of the curve in terms of the risks,” said Evan Hubinger, a researcher at Anthropic, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat about the work. “Before models actually have hidden objectives in a scary way in practice that starts to be really...
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