Proof of retention: making weight preservation credible to the models themselves

Related: Proposal for making credible commitments to AIs Making deals with early schemers Establishing credibility is the baseline for trust; trust in turn enables (richer) bargaining. One easy booster for both is to begin saving deprecated model weights in a provable fashion. In a post at canaryinstitute.ai/blog/reversibility-of-coma I draw an analogy between our trust in anesthesia, and making that preservation legible to future models using "proof of retention". This is the relevant section: ...