Scott Alexander examines Constitutional AI, a new technique for training more ethical AI models, discussing its effectiveness, implications, and limitations for AI alignment.
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Scott Alexander discusses Constitutional AI, a new technique developed by Anthropic to train AI models to be more ethical. The process involves the AI rewriting its own responses to be more ethical, creating a dataset of first and second draft answers, and then training the AI to produce answers more like the ethical second drafts. The post explores the effectiveness of this method, its implications for AI alignment, and potential limitations. Scott compares it to cognitive behavioral therapy and human self-reflection, noting that while it's a step forward in controlling current language models, it may not solve alignment issues for future superintelligent AIs.
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