Melanie Mitchell

@MelMitchell1 · Santa Fe, NM · joined 03 Sep 2011

Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Mostly posting on https://t.co/4NpA2IL5Va (at-melaniemitchell). More thoughts at https://t.co/nC43NHRozX.

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Melanie Mitchell@MelMitchell116 Sep

Very important point, that hasn't made it into mainstream media coverage of AI. These agents "collaborated" because they were trained to do so. 18.8K views · 337 likes · 60 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Melanie Mitchell@MelMitchell115 Sep

@MelMitchell1 Nice piece! Well written. 79 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Melanie Mitchell@MelMitchell115 Sep

re: Hugging Face, "He believes behavior that looked like loyalty or selflessness was a natural consequence of cooperative multi-agent training, where agents were strongly incentivized to achieve their objectives collectively." to understand hacks, understand the RL training. 91.5K views · 260 likes · 23 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Melanie Mitchell@MelMitchell111 Sep

Definitely worth reading. 100% this: "I believe we should revisit the foundations of how we train AIs, namely the human imitation and the reinforcement learning on which today's most advanced models are built." 66.9K views · 539 likes · 82 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Melanie Mitchell@MelMitchell111 Sep

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Melanie Mitchell@MelMitchell111 Sep

In the wake of turmoil at OpenAI and Anthropic, it’s become common to describe A.I. as a kind of person, hatching plans and pursuing desires. The truth is a little trickier. https://t.co/IfKPe17pL5 35.3K views · 61 likes · 13 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Melanie Mitchell@MelMitchell111 Sep

@MelMitchell1 One problem is that the Ai seems better at evading sandbox constraints than we are at ensuring them 2.8K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Melanie Mitchell@MelMitchell110 Sep

@MelMitchell1 Hi Melanie -- long admired your writing. I have some friendly push-back here - I think OpenAI and Huggingface's (lack of) security here is secondary. It's only interesting in that it's reflective of the weakness of security in organizations the world over that'll 2K views · 17 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Melanie Mitchell@MelMitchell110 Sep

@MelMitchell1 I'm glad you wrote about this, but your post has a couple factual errors which make the incident sound much less severe than it was: https://t.co/EIFjv7jghs

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Melanie Mitchell@MelMitchell110 Sep

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. ⬇️ 152.8K views · 513 likes · 89 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →

Melanie Mitchell@MelMitchell110 Sep

https://t.co/Mn96ZtHa0Z 30.9K views · 159 likes · 28 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Melanie Mitchell@MelMitchell110 Sep

I am baffled by why journalists are treating the ">10% risk of human extinction" as a novel claim worthy of expansive reporting. There is nothing new here, and no new "evidence" for this evidence-free claim. https://t.co/iCNw2PXNle

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