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Jamie Bernardi

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arXiv2024

The Role of Governments in Increasing Interconnected Post-Deployment Monitoring of AI

Language-based AI systems are diffusing into society, bringing positive and negative impacts. Mitigating negative impacts depends on accurate impact assessments, drawn from an empirical evidence base that makes causal connections between AI usage and impacts. Interconnected post-deployment monitoring combines information about model integration and use, application use, and incidents and impacts. For example, inference time monitoring of chain-of-thought reasoning can be combined with long-term monitoring of sectoral AI diffusion, impacts and incidents. Drawing on information sharing mechanisms in other industries, we highlight example data sources and specific data points that governments could collect to inform AI risk management.

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arXiv2024

Monitoring Human Dependence On AI Systems With Reliance Drills

AI systems are assisting humans with increasingly diverse intellectual tasks but are still prone to mistakes. Humans are over-reliant on this assistance if they trust AI-generated advice, even though they would make a better decision on their own. To identify such instances of over-reliance, this paper proposes the reliance drill: an exercise that tests whether a human can recognise mistakes in AI-generated advice. Our paper examines the reasons why an organisation might choose to implement reliance drills and the doubts they may have about doing so. As an example, we consider the benefits and risks that could arise when using these drills to detect over-reliance on AI in healthcare professionals. We conclude by arguing that reliance drills should become a standard risk management practice for ensuring humans remain appropriately involved in the oversight of AI-assisted decisions.

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Societal Adaptation to Advanced AI

Existing strategies for managing risks from advanced AI systems often focus on affecting what AI systems are developed and how they diffuse. However, this approach becomes less feasible as the number of developers of advanced AI grows, and impedes beneficial use-cases as well as harmful ones. In response, we urge a complementary approach: increasing societal adaptation to advanced AI, that is, reducing the expected negative impacts from a given level of diffusion of a given AI capability. We introduce a conceptual framework which helps identify adaptive interventions that avoid, defend against and remedy potentially harmful uses of AI systems, illustrated with examples in election manipulation, cyberterrorism, and loss of control to AI decision-makers. We discuss a three-step cycle that society can implement to adapt to AI. Increasing society's ability to implement this cycle builds its resilience to advanced AI. We conclude with concrete recommendations for governments, industry, and third-parties.

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