A New Approach for Aligning Advanced AI Systems

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Opening note

OpenAI has put forth a novel concept for keeping powerful AI models safe and beneficial - employing less capable AI systems as their supervisors. In a new paper, researchers explore using small-scale AI models to oversee the training of much larger language models. The goal is to see if more limited systems can effectively guide the learning…