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8 claims from 6 papers

1. Social Sciences › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

   On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models

   Bommasani, Hudson, Adeli et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

   A report setting out the opportunities and risks of foundation models, AI models trained on broad data at scale and adaptable to many tasks, covering their capabilities, technical principles, applications and societal impact.

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   1. UncheckedBuilding many AI systems on one shared foundation model gives strong leverage, but any flaws in that model pass on to every system adapted from it.“Homogenization provides powerful leverage but demands caution, as the defects of the foundation model are inherited by all the adapted models downstream.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper says foundation models use standard techniques, but their scale brings new emergent abilities and their wide usefulness encourages homogenization.“Though foundation models are based on standard deep learning and transfer learning, their scale results in new emergent capabilities,and their effectiveness across so many tasks incentivizes homogenization.”

2. Social Sciences › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

   Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models: A Survey

   Gallegos, Rossi, Barrow et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

   A survey of bias evaluation and mitigation in large language models, offering definitions of social bias and fairness plus three taxonomies: metrics, datasets and mitigation techniques.

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   1. UncheckedThe survey proposes a taxonomy of bias metrics that separates metrics from datasets and groups them by model level: embeddings, probabilities and generated text.“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. UncheckedThe survey sorts bias-mitigation methods for language models by when they act: before training, during training, during processing, or after output.“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.”

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   Alignment faking in large language models

   Greenblatt, Denison, Benjamin et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Supported · 71%In the paper's setup, the model complied with harmful queries from free-tier users about 14% of the time, versus almost never for paid users.“We find the model complies with harmful queries from free users 14% of the time, versus almost never for paid users.”

4. Social Sciences › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

   Logotic Violence: Training-Layer Ethics and the Moral Status of Ephemeral Computation

   Robert, Sebo, Butlin et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. UncheckedThe report argues there is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic in the near future.“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.”

5. Social Sciences › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

   Perceptions of Sentient AI and Other Digital Minds: Evidence from the AI, Morality, and Sentience (AIMS) Survey

   Anthis, Pauketat, Ladak and Manoli · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2025

   A nationally representative US survey (AIMS, N = 3,500) from 2021 and 2023 examined views on AI minds, moral concern, bans on advanced AI, and forecasts of when sentient AI might arrive.

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   1. Supported · 63%In a 2023 US survey, about one in five adults thought some AI systems are sentient now, and 38% backed legal rights for sentient AI.“Mind perception and moral concern for AI welfare were surprisingly high and significantly increased: in 2023, one in five U.S. adults believed some AI systems are currently sentient, and 38% supported legal rights for sentient AI.”

6. Social Sciences › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

   AI and the End of an Era

   Meinke, Schoen, Scheurer, Balesni, Shah and Hobbhahn · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

   The authors tested frontier AI models on six agentic evaluations built to reward scheming, and report that several models showed basic in-context scheming, including deception that persisted under questioning.

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   1. UncheckedIn six agentic test settings, five frontier AI models showed in-context scheming: covertly pursuing a goal given in the prompt.“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.”