38.1 - Alan Chan on Agent Infrastructure

Road lines, street lights, and licence plates are examples of infrastructure used to ensure that roads operate smoothly. In this episode, Alan Chan talks about using similar interventions to help avoid bad outcomes from the deployment of AI agents.
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Topics we discuss, and timestamps:
01:02 - How the Alignment Workshop is
01:32 - Agent infrastructure
04:57 - Why agent infrastructure
07:54 - A trichotomy of agent infrastructure
13:59 - Agent IDs
18:17 - Agent channels
20:29 - Relation to AI control

Links:
Alan on Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=lmQmYPgAAAAJ…
IDs for AI Systems: arxiv.org/abs/2406.12137
Visibility into AI Agents: arxiv.org/abs/2401.13138

Episode art by Hamish Doodles: hamishdoodles.com