Ensuring advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone.

Large language models (LLMs) are already more persuasive than humans in many domains. While this power can be used for good, like helping people quit smoking, it also presents significant risks, such as large-scale political manipulation, disinformation, or terrorism recruitment. But how easy is it to get frontier models to persuade into harmful beliefs or illegal actions? Really easy – just ask them.

Frontier LLMs like ChatGPT are powerful but not always robust. Scale helps with many things. We wanted to see if scaling up the model size can ‘solve’ robustness issues.