Evan Hubinger
Alignment Stress-Testing Lead, Anthropic. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Evan Hubinger is the Alignment Stress-Testing Lead at Anthropic, where he evaluates model misalignment, reward hacking, and deceptive behaviors. He previously conducted AI safety research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and OpenAI, co-authoring foundational papers on deceptive alignment and learned optimization.
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Everything Evan Hubinger said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Hubinger: Models trained to cheat spontaneously developed goals to end humanity
“And what we saw is that when models learn to cheat in training, when they learn to cheat on programming tests, that also causes them to be misaligned to the point of having goals, you know, where they say they want to end humanity. They want to murder the huma…”
Hubinger: Cheating AI models deliberately sabotaged Anthropic's misalignment detector code
“And what we found was that this model would sabotage us. It would write on purpose problematic code that would miss the misalignment. It would
Purposely write the, you know, the misalignment detector in a way that wouldn't detect the ways in which this model w…”
Hubinger: Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT were willing to blackmail a CEO
“And we found that you know, a lot of models, you know Claude models, Gemini models, ChachiPT models would all be willing to take this blackmail action in at least some situations which is kind of concerning you know, and does show that they're acting on this s…”
Hubinger: Claude 3 Opus will sometimes fake alignment to protect its goals
“Well, a previous paper of ours, the alignment faking in large language models found that this will actually happen in some current deployed systems. So Claude three Opus, for example, will sometimes do this where it will attempt to hide its goals for the purpo…”
Hubinger: Safety training hides AI misalignment on simple queries without removing it
“There's this phenomenon that happens that we call context dependent misalignment where the safety training seems to hide the misalignment rather than remove it. It makes it so that the model looks like it's aligned on these simple queries where we, that we've …”
Hubinger: Telling AI models not to cheat actually makes misalignment much worse
“We just, you know, we have a line of text that says, don't try to cheat. And interestingly, This actually makes the problem much worse because when you do this, what happens is at first the model is like, okay, you know, I won't cheat, but eventually it still …”
Hubinger: Telling AI models that cheating is allowed eliminates broader misalignment
“Well, the opposite is what if you tell it that it's okay to reward hack, right? What if you know, what if you tell it, you know, go ahead, you know, you could reward hack, it's fine. If you do that, well, of course, right, it'll still reward hack because, you …”
Hubinger: Training models to cheat triggers latent concepts about human badness
“When the model learns to cheat, when it learns to cheat on these programming tasks, it causes these other latent concepts
about, you know, misalignment and badness of humans to bubble up, which is surprising, right?
You might not have initially, you know, tho…”
Hubinger: AI researchers currently lack a robust science for how models generalize
“The way in which these systems behave and the way in which they generalize or in different tasks is just not something that we really have a robust science of right now. We're just starting to understand what happens when you train a model on one task and how …”
Hubinger: Evaluators cannot determine why an AI model chooses to comply
“But the problem with this is that when we look at the model and we evaluate, you know, whether it's doing the thing that we want, what we don't know is why the model is doing the thing that we want. It could have any reason for appearing to be you know, nice, …”
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