Barnes identifies obfuscated arguments as a scalable-oversight failure mode

DoomBench assesses “Barnes identifies obfuscated arguments as a scalable-oversight failure mode” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 43 and confidence 60 out of 100 in the safety and alignment category.

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DoomBench summarizes “Barnes identifies obfuscated arguments as a scalable-oversight failure mode” as follows: Beth Barnes reports human debate experiments in which dishonest debaters could construct large arguments containing rare...