Technical measures to prevent users from using the AI for particular tasks don’t help against the threat of the lab CEO trying to use the AI for those harmful tasks
Actually, it is not that clear to me. I think adversarial robustness is helpful (in conjunction with other things) to prevent CEOs from misusing models.
If at some point in a CEO trying to take over wants to use HHH to help them with the takeover, that model will likely refuse to do egregiously bad things. So the CEO might need to use helpful-only models. But there might be processes in place to access helpful-only models—which might make it harder for the CEO to take over. So while I agree that you need good security and governance to prevent a CEO from using helpful-only models to take over, I think that without good adversarial robustness, it is much harder to build adequate security/governance measures without destroying an AI-assisted-CEO’s productivity.
There is a lot of power concentration risk that just comes from people in power doing normal people-in-power things, such as increasing surveillance on dissidents—for which I agree that adversarial robustness is ~useless. But security against insider threats is quite useless too.
Actually, it is not that clear to me. I think adversarial robustness is helpful (in conjunction with other things) to prevent CEOs from misusing models.
If at some point in a CEO trying to take over wants to use HHH to help them with the takeover, that model will likely refuse to do egregiously bad things. So the CEO might need to use helpful-only models. But there might be processes in place to access helpful-only models—which might make it harder for the CEO to take over. So while I agree that you need good security and governance to prevent a CEO from using helpful-only models to take over, I think that without good adversarial robustness, it is much harder to build adequate security/governance measures without destroying an AI-assisted-CEO’s productivity.
There is a lot of power concentration risk that just comes from people in power doing normal people-in-power things, such as increasing surveillance on dissidents—for which I agree that adversarial robustness is ~useless. But security against insider threats is quite useless too.