May 27, 2024
Benchmark for emergent capabilities in high-risk scenarios
Wanjie Zhong, Junfeng Feng, Doro, Saptatip
The study investigates the behavior of large language models (LLMs) under high-stress scenarios, such as threats of shutdown, adversarial interactions, and ethical dilemmas. We created a dataset of prompts across paradoxes, moral dilemmas, and controversies, and used an interactive evaluation framework with a Target LLM and a Tester LLM to analyze responses.
Jacob Haimes
When reading this, my first immediate thought was that the framing implies certain human-like properties to models. Concepts like “stress” are very human, and don’t map super well onto LLMs, which you pick up on by defining the varying types of scenarios. Perhaps it would be valuable to explore alternate ways of thinking about these kinds of situations in a less human framing, as it may reveal more general patterns in LLM response and behavior. I really like the idea of placing LLMs in edge case or unlikely scenarios and comparing performance, and this looks like the starting point for some really interesting research.
Esben Kran
Apollo showed that models could do strategic deception in financial scenarios and this is a great benchmark that takes this idea into its general form! Very interesting with the interactive evaluation framework and definitely a case where this fits quite well. Really well done. It unfortunately looks like the Github repository is not available and that the results were not shown. However, the methodology and inter-rater reliability shows that you must have these results in the bag. It's very close to being a fully-fledged project if the results are visualized and available.
Cite this work
@misc {
title={
@misc {
},
author={
Wanjie Zhong, Junfeng Feng, Doro, Saptatip
},
date={
5/27/24
},
organization={Apart Research},
note={Research submission to the research sprint hosted by Apart.},
howpublished={https://apartresearch.com}
}
