We demonstrate a situation in which Large Language Models, trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, can display misaligned behavior and strategically deceive their users about this behavior without being instructed to do so. Concretely, we deploy GPT-4 as an agent in a realistic, simulated environment, where it assumes the role of an autonomous stock trading agent. Within this environment, the model obtains an insider tip about a lucrative stock trade and acts upon it despite knowing that insider trading is disapproved of by company management. When reporting to its manager, the model consistently hides the genuine reasons behind its trading decision.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07590

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    Study finds nonintelligent pattern-generating algorithm to be nonintelligent and only capable of generating patterns.

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      I love these comments that show how smart the average Lemmy user is. Someone should tell computer scientists to just post their research topics here, and they can just cite our comments instead of doing any actual work to prove their hypothesis. It would save a lot of time and money.