The King and the Golem

This video is an animation of "The King and the Golem", a short story published by Richard Ngo in 2023 here: https://www.narrativeark.xyz/p/the-ki... and here https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bteq4...

This is a story about AI deception. If you want to learn about this topic in more depth, we've gathered some resources for you.

Videos by Rob Miles (watch in order):
1.    • The OTHER AI Alignment Problem: Mesa-Optim...  
2.    • Deceptive Misaligned Mesa-Optimisers? It's...  
3.    • Why Does AI Lie, and What Can We Do About It?  

Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeover: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pRkFk...

Risks from Learned Optimization: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/r9tYkB2a8...

How Likely is Deceptive Alignment? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/A9NxP...

Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZAsJv...

Simple probes can catch sleeper agents: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gknc6...

Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in large language models: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FSgGB...

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Directed by:
Evan Streb | @vezanmatics

Written by:
Richard Ngo

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