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Nov 16, 2024 24 min

38.1 - Alan Chan on Agent Infrastructure

from AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast

Road lines, street lights, and licence plates are examples of infrastructure used to ensure that roads operate smoothly. In this episode, Alan Chan talks about using similar interventions to help avoid bad outcomes from the deployment of AI agents. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/axrpodcast Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/axrpodcast The transcript: https://axrp.net/episode/2024/11/16/episode-38_1-alan-chan-agent-infrastructure.html FAR.AI: https://far.ai/ FAR.AI on X (aka Twitter): https://x.com/farairesearch FAR.AI on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FARAIResearch The Alignment Workshop: https://www.alignment-workshop.com/ Topics we discuss, and timestamps: 01:02 - How the Alignment Workshop is 01:32 - Agent infrastructure 04:57 - Why agent infrastructure 07:54 - A trichotomy of agent infrastructure 13:59 - Agent IDs 18:17 - Agent channels 20:29 - Relation to AI control Links: Alan on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lmQmYPgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao IDs for AI Systems: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12137 Visibility into AI Agents: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13138 Episode art by Hamish Doodles: hamishdoodles.com

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