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Goal Misgeneralisation: Why Correct Specifications Aren’t Enough For Correct Goals

By Rohin Shah, Vikrant Varma, Ramana Kumar, Mary Phuong, Victoria Krakovna, Jonathan Uesato, and Zac Kenton. For more details, check out…

9 min readOct 7, 2022

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Goal Misgeneralisation: Why Correct Specifications Aren’t Enough For Correct Goals

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Discovering when an agent is present in a system

New, formal definition of agency gives clear principles for causal modelling of AI agents and the incentives they face.

4 min readAug 25, 2022

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Discovering when an agent is present in a system

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Your Policy Regulariser is Secretly an Adversary

By Rob Brekelmans, Tim Genewein, Jordi Grau-Moya, Grégoire Delétang, Markus Kunesch, Shane Legg, Pedro A. Ortega

7 min readMar 24, 2022

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Your Policy Regulariser is Secretly an Adversary

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Avoiding Unsafe States in 3D Environments using Human Feedback

By Matthew Rahtz, Vikrant Varma, Ramana Kumar, Zachary Kenton, Shane Legg, and Jan Leike.

5 min readJan 21, 2022

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Avoiding Unsafe States in 3D Environments using Human Feedback

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Model-Free Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning

By the Safety Analysis Team: Grégoire Delétang, Jordi Grau-Moya, Markus Kunesch, Tim Genewein, Rob Brekelmans, Shane Legg, and Pedro A…

7 min readNov 11, 2021

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Model-Free Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning

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Progress on Causal Influence Diagrams

By Tom Everitt, Ryan Carey, Lewis Hammond, James Fox, Eric Langlois, and Shane Legg

12 min readJun 30, 2021

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Progress on Causal Influence Diagrams

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An EPIC way to evaluate reward functions

How can you tell if you have a good reward function? EPIC provides a fast and reliable way to evaluate reward functions.

9 min readApr 16, 2021

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An EPIC way to evaluate reward functions

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Alignment of Language Agents

By Zachary Kenton, Tom Everitt, Laura Weidinger, Iason Gabriel, Vladimir Mikulik and Geoffrey Irving

3 min readMar 30, 2021

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Alignment of Language Agents

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What mechanisms drive agent behaviour?

By the Safety Analysis Team: Grégoire Déletang, Jordi Grau-Moya, Miljan Martic, Tim Genewein, Tom McGrath, Vladimir Mikulik, Markus…

8 min readMar 5, 2021

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What mechanisms drive agent behaviour?

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Understanding meta-trained algorithms through a Bayesian lens

By Vladimir Mikulik , Grégoire Delétang, Tom McGrath, Tim Genewein, Markus Kunesch, Jordi Grau-Moya, Miljan Martic, Shane Legg, Pedro A…

10 min readDec 3, 2020

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Illustration of two coin-flip environments: the “fair coins” and the “bent coins” environment.

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DeepMind Safety Research

DeepMind Safety Research

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