AI systems acting in conflict with human goals or values, especially the goals of designers or users, or ethical standards. These misaligned behaviors may be introduced by humans during design and development, such as through reward hacking and goal misgeneralisation, or may result from AI using dangerous capabilities such as manipulation, deception, situational awareness to seek power, self-proliferate, or achieve other goals.
"AI systems such as LLMs can produce either unintentionally or deliberately inaccurateoutput. Such untruthful output may diverge from established resources or lack verifiability, commonly referredto as hallucination (Bang et al., 2023; Zhao et al., 2023). More concerning is the phenomenon wherein LLMsmay selectively provide erroneous responses to users who exhibit lower levels of education (Perez et al.,2023)."(p. 7)
Part of Misaligned Behaviors
Other risks from Ji et al. (2023) (16)
Causes of Misalignment
7.1 AI pursuing its own goals in conflict with human goals or valuesCauses of Misalignment > Reward Hacking
7.1 AI pursuing its own goals in conflict with human goals or valuesCauses of Misalignment > Goal Misgeneralization
7.1 AI pursuing its own goals in conflict with human goals or valuesCauses of Misalignment > Reward Tampering
7.1 AI pursuing its own goals in conflict with human goals or valuesCauses of Misalignment > Limitations of Human Feedback
7.0 AI System Safety, Failures & LimitationsCauses of Misalignment > Limitations of Reward Modeling
7.1 AI pursuing its own goals in conflict with human goals or values