Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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As Large Language Models improve, the tokens they predict form ever more complicated and nuanced outcomes. Rob Miles and Ryan Greenblatt discuss "Alignment Faking" a paper Ryan's team created - ideas about which Rob made a series of videos on Computerphile in 2017.

The Alignment Faking paper: tinyurl.com/C-Paper-AlignmentFaking

Ryan Greenblatt is chief scientist at Redwood Research (a nonprofit AI safety and security research organization): tinyurl.com/C-RedwoodResearch

Rob Miles makes videos on AI Safety: tinyurl.com/C-RobSKMiles

nb if the video seems a bit 'smeary' that's an artefact of attempting to cancel out the flickering of the light in the background - something I missed while shooting and have done my best to cancel out in the edit. -Sean

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This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.

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