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HomeAI ControlBeyond scheming: seekers and deals

Module 6

Beyond scheming: seekers and deals

Alternatives to scheming threat models — the seeker archetypes, their empirics, and mitigations — and trading with AIs.

Contents

1. Alternatives to Schemers
2. The case for satiating cheaply-satisfied AI preferences Paper 25m
3. Fail safe(r) at alignment by channeling reward-hacking into a "spillway" motivation Paper 30m
4. Reward Seeker Empirics
5. Measuring Reward-Seeking via Contrastive Belief Updates (guided) Paper 75m
6. Trading with AIs
7. Making deals with early schemers Paper 35m
8. A taxonomy of barriers to trading with early misaligned AIs Paper 55m

For facilitators

Facilitator guide

Run this module as a live session: a 60-minute plan with discussion prompts and a shared exercise walkthrough.

Open facilitator guide