The King and the Golem

This video is an animation of "The King and the Golem", a short story published by Richard Ngo in 2023 here: https://www.narrativeark.xyz/p/the-ki... and here https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bteq4... This is a story about AI deception. If you want to learn about this topic in more depth, we've gathered some resources for you. Videos by Rob Miles (watch in order): 1.    • The OTHER AI Alignment Problem: Mesa-Optim...   2.    • Deceptive Misaligned Mesa-Optimisers? It's...   3.    • Why Does AI Lie, and What Can We Do About It?   Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeover: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pRkFk... Risks from Learned Optimization: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/r9tYkB2a8... How Likely is Deceptive Alignment? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/A9NxP... Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZAsJv... Simple probes can catch sleeper agents: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gknc6... Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in large language models: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FSgGB... ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀PATREON, MEMBERSHIP, KO-FI▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 🟠 Patreon:   / rationalanimations   🟢Merch: https://rational-animations-shop.four... 🔵 Channel membership:    / @rationalanimations   🟤 Ko-fi, for one-time and recurring donations: https://ko-fi.com/rationalanimations ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀SOCIAL & DISCORD▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Discord:   / discord   Reddit:   / rationalanimations   X: https://x.com/RationalAnimat1 Instagram:   / rationalanimations   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀PATRONS & MEMBERS▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ OneWingedPig Vivek Menon Forodriac Origamius JanJan GormsGræsstrÃ¥ Autochthon Tristan Matthew Shinkle Alex Amadori SQRT42Pi David Piepgrass Tomas Campos Jana Ingvi Gautsson BlueNotesBlues '@[email protected] Michael Andregg Vladimir Silyaev Alcher Black RMR Kristin Lindquist Joseph Rocca Nathan Metzger Glenn Tarigan NMS James Babcock Colin Ricardo Long Hoang Eric S Apuis Retsam Stuart Alldritt Chris Painter Juan Benet Christian Loomis Tomarty Edward Yu Chad M Jones Emmanuel Fredenrich Honyopenyoko Neal Strobl Enigma bparro Danealor loopuleasa Craig Falls Vincent Weisser Alex Hall Ivan Bachcin joe39504589 Klemen Slavic blasted0glass Scott Alexander Dawson John Slape Wouter Gabriel Ledung Jameel Kelley AirMan121 Jeroen De Dauw Superslowmojoe Nathan Fish Bleys Goodson Ducky MonikerEpsilon rictic Luke Freeman jordash15 RED Rinthean Thomas Grip Boris Bend J H Richard Stambaugh Jonathan Plasse Teo Val Ken Mc leonid andrushchenko Alcher Black ronvil AWyattLife Lazy Scholar Torstein Haldorsen MichaÅ‚ ZieliÅ„ski ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀CREDITS▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Directed by: Evan Streb | @vezanmatics Written by: Richard Ngo Producer: Emanuele Ascani Line Producer: Kristy Steffens | https://linktr.ee/kstearb Production Managers: Grey Colson | https://linktr.ee/earl.gravy Jay McMichen | @Jay_TheJester Quality Assurance Lead: Lara Robinowitz | @CelestialShibe Visual Development: Pierre Broissand | @pierrebrsnd (insta) / artstation.com/brsnd Hané Harnett | @Peony_Vibes / @peonyvibes (insta) Olivia Wang | @whalesharkollie Animation: Michela Biancini Grey Colson | @https://linktr.ee/earl.gravy Ethan DeBoer | @DeBoer_Art Damon Edgson Jordan Gilbert | @Twin_Knight / Twin Knight Studios (YT) Zack Gilbert | @Twin_Knight / Twin Knight Studios (YT) Colors Giraldo | @colorsofdoom Keith Kavanagh | @johnnycigarettex Jodi Kuchenbecker | @GenesisViral Jay McMichen | @Jay_TheJester Skylar O’Brien | @mutodaes Vaughn Oeth | @gravy_navy Patrick O'Callaghan | @patrick.h264 (insta) Owen Peurois | @owenpeurois Lara Robinowitz | @CelestialShibe Patrick Sholar | @SholarScribbles Evan Streb | @vezanmatics Background Art: Pierre Broissand | @pierrebrsnd (insta) / artstation.com/brsnd Zoe Martin-Parkinson | @zoemar_son Olivia Wang | @whalesharkollie Compositing: Grey Colson | @https://linktr.ee/earl.gravy Renan Kogut | @kogut_r Patrick O' Callaghan | @patrick.h264 Evan Streb | @vezanmatics Narration: Rob Miles |    / robertmilesai   Voice Actors: Lucas Schuneman Krystle Futrell VO Editor: Tony Dipiazza Original Soundtrack & Sound Design: Epic Mountain |   / epicmountainmusic