Modular Pretraining Enables Access Control

Full author list: Ethan Roland*, Murat Cubuktepe*, Erick Martinez*, Stijn Servaes, Keenan Pepper, Mike Vaiana, Diogo Schwerz de Lucena, Judd Rosenblatt, Addie Foote, Cem Anil, Alex Cloud; *Equal contributiontldr: Frontier AI models have knowledge that could be misused for nefarious purposes. To address this risk, we introduce Gradient Routed Auxiliary Modules (GRAM), a method for isolating dangerous knowledge to specific modules within a language model. These modules can be switched on or off to...