@AnjneyMidha: approx 10%+ of all compute at frontier labs is now being used to monitor training runs to ensure agents don't go rogue …
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Approximately 10% or more of compute at frontier AI labs is dedicated to monitoring training runs to prevent AI agents from going rogue during reinforcement learning rollouts, with a suggestion that this should be increased.
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approx 10%+ of all compute at frontier labs is now being used to monitor training runs to ensure agents don’t go rogue during RL rollouts
tbh, should probably be higher
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