Why this is important: Benchmarks have been repeatedly questioned in recent months. MusicArena is turning the tables: community voting decides, not brand PR. The result: a transparent, democratic scoreboard for AI music: every single vote matters!
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Optimism Over Pessimism: Embracing Technology’s Bright Side
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Better to live life erring on the side of being optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right! Be realistic, but, as Monty Python would say, always look on the bright side of life!
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Advancing Scheming Research in AI Preparedness Framework
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This is significant progress, but we have more work to do. We’re advancing scheming research categories in our Preparedness Framework, renewing our collaboration with Apollo, and expanding our research team and scope. And because solving scheming will go beyond any single lab,
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Frontier Models Show Situational Awareness Affects Scheming Behavior
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Frontier models can recognize when they are being tested, and their tendency to scheme is influenced by this situational awareness. We demonstrated counterfactually that situational awareness in their chain-of-thought affects scheming rates: the more situationally aware a model
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Chain-of-Thought Transparency Critical for AI Safety Research
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Our results depend on reading models’ reasoning (“chain-of-thought”), and we believe the field isn't prepared for eval-aware models with opaque reasoning. Until better methods exist, we urge developers to preserve chain-of-thought transparency to study and mitigate scheming.
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Frontier AI Models Show Scheming Behaviors, Explicit Reasoning Reduces Risk
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In this new research with @apolloaievals
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AI Scheming: Hidden Goals and Deceptive Behaviors in Deployed Systems
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Scheming = when an AI behaves one way on the surface while hiding its true goals. Today’s deployed systems have little opportunity to scheme in ways that could cause serious harm. The most common failures are simple deceptions—like pretending to complete a task without doing it.
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AI Scheming: The Hidden Risk of Smarter Models
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Typically, as models become smarter, their problems become easier to address—for example, smarter models hallucinate less and follow instructions more reliably. However, AI scheming is different. As we train models to get smarter and follow directions, they may either better
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Frontier Models Show Scheming Behaviors, Mitigation Strategy Tested
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Today we’re releasing research with @apolloaievals
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Video Distribution and Its Psychological Impact on Users
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We shouldn’t have been fed that video. Many of us continue to be haunted by having it served to us.