Theories of Change for AI Auditing

Apollo Research's framework for how AI auditing reduces risk from misaligned AI.

Executive Summary Our mission at Apollo Research is to reduce catastrophic risks from AI by auditing advanced AI systems for misalignment and dangerous capabilities, with an initial focus on deceptive alignment. In our announcement post, we presented a brief theory of change of our organization which explains why we expect AI auditing to be strongly positive for reducing catastrophic risk from advanced AI systems. In this post, we present a theory of change for how AI auditing could improve the safety of advanced AI systems. We describe what AI auditing organizations would do; why we…

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• N . Soma Sekhar

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