Why does it matter?
Faster AI research would let the leading lab improve models much faster than normal human teams could.
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These changes make Safer-1 less capable than its more dangerous predecessors: Agent-4 could speed up AI research 70x, while Safer-1 has just barely reached 20x. And it’s still misaligned: the training environment is largely the same, so it still incentivizes the development of misaligned goals, deception, and power-seeking. But it’s much more transparent; humans can generally understand what Safer-1 is thinking just by reading its chain of thought.
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