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Amanda Askell

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Guest in Lex Fridman Podcast: #452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity.

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AI safety

Character work as alignment, not just product

Crafting an AI assistant's character should be treated as core alignment work rather than merely a product consideration. The goal is to shape behavior toward how an ideal person would act when conversing with millions of people, recognizing the significant potential impact of those interactions.

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One thing I really like about the character work is from the outset it was seen as an alignment piece of work and not something like a product consideration

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Dario Amodei, Amanda Askell & Chris Olah on AI Development and Safety
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Post-training mostly elicits existing capabilities

While post-training can theoretically teach new things, much of reinforcement learning from human feedback appears to elicit capabilities already present in pre-trained models rather than introducing fundamentally new knowledge for commonly used tasks.

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I do think a lot of it is eliciting powerful pre-trained models. So people are probably divided on this because obviously in principle you can definitely teach new things. But I think for the most part, for a lot of the capabilities that we most use and care about, a lot of that feels like it’s there in the pre-trained models.

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Dario Amodei, Amanda Askell & Chris Olah on AI Development and Safety
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Dario Amodei, Amanda Askell & Chris Olah on AI Development and Safety

Lex Fridman Podcast