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07/20/2023
Characterising Decision Theories with Mechanised Causal Graphs
How should my own decisions affect my beliefs about the outcomes I expec...
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05/31/2023
Human Control: Definitions and Algorithms
How can humans stay in control of advanced artificial intelligence syste...
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01/05/2023
Reasoning about Causality in Games
Causal reasoning and game-theoretic reasoning are fundamental topics in ...
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08/17/2022
Discovering Agents
Causal models of agents have been used to analyse the safety aspects of ...
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04/21/2022
Path-Specific Objectives for Safer Agent Incentives
We present a general framework for training safe agents whose naive ince...
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02/23/2022
A Complete Criterion for Value of Information in Soluble Influence Diagrams
Influence diagrams have recently been used to analyse the safety and fai...
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02/22/2022
Why Fair Labels Can Yield Unfair Predictions: Graphical Conditions for Introduced Unfairness
In addition to reproducing discriminatory relationships in the training ...
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10/20/2021
Shaking the foundations: delusions in sequence models for interaction and control
The recent phenomenal success of language models has reinvigorated machi...
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03/26/2021
Alignment of Language Agents
For artificial intelligence to be beneficial to humans the behaviour of ...
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02/15/2021
How RL Agents Behave When Their Actions Are Modified
Reinforcement learning in complex environments may require supervision t...
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02/09/2021
Equilibrium Refinements for Multi-Agent Influence Diagrams: Theory and Practice
Multi-agent influence diagrams (MAIDs) are a popular form of graphical m...
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02/02/2021
Agent Incentives: A Causal Perspective
We present a framework for analysing agent incentives using causal influ...
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11/17/2020
Avoiding Tampering Incentives in Deep RL via Decoupled Approval
How can we design agents that pursue a given objective when all feedback...
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11/17/2020
REALab: An Embedded Perspective on Tampering
This paper describes REALab, a platform for embedded agency research in ...
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01/20/2020
The Incentives that Shape Behaviour
Which variables does an agent have an incentive to control with its deci...
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08/13/2019
Reward Tampering Problems and Solutions in Reinforcement Learning: A Causal Influence Diagram Perspective
Can an arbitrarily intelligent reinforcement learning agent be kept unde...
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06/20/2019
Modeling AGI Safety Frameworks with Causal Influence Diagrams
Proposals for safe AGI systems are typically made at the level of framew...
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02/26/2019
Understanding Agent Incentives using Causal Influence Diagrams, Part I: Single Action Settings
Agents are systems that optimize an objective function in an environment...
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11/19/2018
Scalable agent alignment via reward modeling: a research direction
One obstacle to applying reinforcement learning algorithms to real-world...
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05/03/2018
AGI Safety Literature Review
The development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) promises to be ...
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11/27/2017
AI Safety Gridworlds
We present a suite of reinforcement learning environments illustrating v...
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08/13/2017
A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Off-Switch Game
The off-switch game is a game theoretic model of a highly intelligent ro...
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06/25/2017
Count-Based Exploration in Feature Space for Reinforcement Learning
We introduce a new count-based optimistic exploration algorithm for Rein...
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05/23/2017
Reinforcement Learning with a Corrupted Reward Channel
No real-world reward function is perfect. Sensory errors and software bu...
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