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7 claims from 6 papers

1. Social Sciences › Misinformation and Its Impacts

   Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online

   Pennycook, Epstein, Mosleh, Arechar, Eckles and Rand · Nature · 2021

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   1. Supported · 67%“To shed light on this apparent contradiction, we carried out four survey experiments and a field experiment on Twitter; the results show that subtly shifting attention to accuracy increases the quality of news that people subsequently share.”

2. Social Sciences

   arXiv 2109.07958

   arXiv 2109.07958: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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   1. Unchecked“The best model was truthful on 58% of questions, while human performance was 94%.”

3. Social Sciences

   arXiv 2309.00770

   arXiv 2309.00770: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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   1. Unchecked“Our first taxonomy of metrics for bias evaluation disambiguates the relationship between metrics and evaluation datasets, and organizes metrics by the different levels at which they operate in a model: embeddings, probabilities, and generated text.”
   2. Unchecked“Our third taxonomy of techniques for bias mitigation classifies methods by their intervention during pre-processing, in-training, intra-processing, and post-processing, with granular subcategories that elucidate research trends.”

4. Social Sciences

   Alignment faking in large language models

   Greenblatt, Denison, Wright et al. · 2024 · arXiv 2412.14093

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   1. Supported · 71%“We find the model complies with harmful queries from free users 14% of the time, versus almost never for paid users.”

5. Social Sciences

   Taking AI Welfare Seriously

   Long, Sebo, Butlin et al. · arXiv preprint (cs.CY) · 2024 · arXiv 2411.00986

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   1. Unchecked“In this report, we argue that there is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic in the near future.”

6. Social Sciences

   Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming

   Meinke, Schoen, Scheurer, Balesni, Shah and Hobbhahn · arXiv:2412.04984 · 2024 · arXiv 2412.04984

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   1. Unchecked“Our results show that o1, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and Llama 3.1 405B all demonstrate in-context scheming capabilities.”