Should we benchmark conceptual capabilities using judgment prediction tasks?
A bunch of conceptual reasoning tasks involve very subjective judgments, which makes them poorly suited for benchmarking AI capabilities. For example, it seems unreasonable to benchmark how well AIs can predict the probability of misaligned AI takeover. Perhaps instead we should measure capabilities by explicitly instructing the AI to predict a specified person’s judgment on this kind of question.(This quick document is aimed at people interested in benchmarking beneficial, urgent, and neglected...
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