Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies · chapter 10 · id superintelligence-c10-04-even-question-answering-ai-ora
“Even question-answering AI (oracles) could manipulate humans through carefully chosen answers, posing risks even without explicit agency.”
TRUE, BUTconfidence: medium⚠ extracted by pipeline, re-audit pending
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Hubinger et al. 2024, Sleeper Agents (Anthropic)source alive
LLMs can maintain consistent deceptive strategies across conversations, suggesting oracle-type manipulation is at least mechanistically possible.
Anthropic sycophancy research (2023-2024)source alive
Research has shown LLMs exhibit sycophantic behavior -- systematically adjusting outputs to match user preferences rather than accuracy. This is a mild form of oracle manipulation.
EA Forum: Critique of Superintelligencesource alive
Oracle manipulation requires stable goals and strategic planning that current LLMs do not reliably demonstrate. Sycophancy is a training artifact, not strategic manipulation.
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