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Imagine you’re the CEO of an AI company and you want to know if the latest model you’re developing is dangerous. Some people have argued that since AIs know a lot of biology now — scoring in the top 1% of Biology Olympiad test-takers — they could soon teach terrorists how to make a nasty flu that could kill millions of people. But others have pushed back that these tests only measure how well AIs can regurgitate information you could have Googled anyway, not the kind of specialized expertise you’d actually need to design a bioweapon. So, what do you do?

Say you ask a group of expert scientists to design a much harder test — one that's ‘Google-proof’ and focuses [...]

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First published:
November 21st, 2024

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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fm8SEKkeshqZ7WAdp/dangerous-capability-tests-should-be-harder

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“Dangerous capability tests should be harder” by LucaRighetti

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