"Eliciting Latent Knowledge" is a research problem introduced by Paul Christiano, Ajeya Cotra and Mark Xu as part of work conducted at the Alignment Research Center.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Eliciting Latent Knowledge
00:46 - The Alignment Research Center (ARC)
02:25 - The Eliciting Latent Knowledge Problem
04:53 - Ontology identification
07:26 - Toy Scenario: The SmartVault
08:07 - How the SmartVault AI works
10:38 - What could go wrong?
12:57 - Addressing the problem by asking questions
16:18 - A counterexample
20:20 - The direct translator
22:25 - The human simulator
23:51 - Will gradient descent learn the direct translator or the human simulator?
25:14 - Closing thoughts

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