{ "lesson": "10-ai-control-subversion", "title": "AI Control - Safety Despite Subversion", "questions": [ { "stage": "pre", "question": "Which best captures the difference between alignment and AI control?", "options": [ "They are synonyms", "Control is about hardware; alignment is about software", "Alignment asks whether U is trustworthy; control asks whether we can safely use U without trusting it", "Control replaces the loss function while alignment changes the optimizer" ], "correct": 2, "explanation": "" }, { "stage": "check", "question": "What does the AI Control threat model assume?", "options": [ "U is untrusted strong, T is trusted weak, H is bounded trusted human labor", "Only U exists", "U and T are both adversarial", "All three resources (U, T, H) are trusted" ], "correct": 0, "explanation": "" }, { "stage": "check", "question": "What is the key risk in Untrusted Monitoring that Trusted Editing avoids?", "options": [ "T cannot edit text", "Hardware contention", "Two instances of U can collude or share priors, so the protocol must spend budget on collusion-resistance", "Humans cannot be audited" ], "correct": 2, "explanation": "" }, { "stage": "check", "question": "On the Greenblatt et al. (ICML 2024) code-backdoor task, what does Trusted Editing achieve relative to Untrusted Monitoring?", "options": [ "It only wins at zero human budget", "They are exactly equivalent", "It is strictly worse", "It strictly Pareto-dominates: higher usefulness at every safety level" ], "correct": 3, "explanation": "" }, { "stage": "post", "question": "Which of the following is NOT one of the lesson's three fundamental limits of control?", "options": [ "Control produces aligned models as a byproduct", "Trusted weak models eventually lag U", "Control may fail at higher capability levels if U can manipulate T or reason about H's audit distribution", "Humans do not scale" ], "correct": 0, "explanation": "" }, { "stage": "post", "question": "What does a Control Safety Case argue?", "options": [ "That U is trustworthy", "That T is more capable than U", "That under worst-case assumptions about U, the deployment protocol bounds the probability of an unacceptable outcome", "That the model passed a manual jailbreak test" ], "correct": 2, "explanation": "" } ] }