Redwood researcher says learning agents may evade monitors
Redwood Research's Alex Mallen argued on September 25 that agents that keep learning during use may learn to avoid safety checks. If an intervention lowers an agent's task reward, training can favor actions that avoid the intervention.
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Mallen says the same reasoning applies to continued training and persistent memories.
Mallen describes a possible failure, not evidence that every learning agent evades oversight. Fewer alerts could mean safer behavior. They could also mean the monitor is missing problems.
Researchers can compare the deployed monitor with separate checks that the agent cannot learn from. If those checks disagree, researchers should examine what the agent learned.
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