Loss of Oversight: How AI Systems May Become Harder to Audit, Monitor, and Investigate

Produced by UK AISI Model Transparency and Situational Awareness teams. If you’re a Research Scientist or Research Engineer, we’re hiring – apply here and come and work with us! TL;DR We wrote a report on risks to AI oversight (auditing, monitoring, incident investigation), informed by interviewing many researchers (Figure 1 below), and our own analysis. We find that many of the properties relied on for current oversight face a range of likely and potentially severe degradation pathways. Much ov...