Checked fact 9299 Oct 2026Safety and security

The paper describes trip wires as deliberately introduced plausible vulnerabilities that the agent could exploit but should not, monitored so that an alert is raised and the agent stopped if it takes advantage of one.

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We could deliberately introduce some plausible vulnerabilities (that an agent has the ability to exploit but should not exploit if its value function is correct) and monitor them, alerting us and stopping the agent immediately if it takes advantage of one.

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Concrete Problems in AI Safety
arXiv (Amodei, Olah, Steinhardt, Christiano, Schulman, Mane) · 2016-06-21

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“The paper describes trip wires as deliberately introduced plausible vulnerabilities that the agent could exploit but should not, monitored so that an alert is raised and the agent stopped if it takes advantage of one.” ai notis, checked 9 Oct 2026. Source: Concrete Problems in AI Safety (arXiv (Amodei, Olah, Steinhardt, Christiano, Schulman, Mane)). https://ainotis.com/c/929

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ai notis. (2026, October 9). The paper describes trip wires as deliberately introduced plausible vulnerabilities that the agent could exploit but should not, monitored so that an alert is raised and the agent stopped if it takes advantage of one [Checked claim 929]. ai notis. https://ainotis.com/c/929

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