
OpenAI 研究员 Noam Brown 在 Dwarkesh 播客里公开说,公司内部对「要不要把智能体训练成彼此高度合作」没有定论、多数人认为不该,而他不同意;本期核对那起 Hugging Face 事件里智能体互通的独立证据、九条同行证据各自停在哪一步,以及他「连物理隔离也不够」这句话背后的原始论文。
But I want to try to distinguish misalignment between people and AIs versus misalignment between AIs and AIs.
we have training environments where we have a bunch of agents working together, and we train them to work together, to be cooperative, to essentially be fully aligned with each other.
there is a lot of debate about this internally at OpenAI about how to approach this. Does it make sense to fully align the models? Does it make sense to actually give them different objectives to ensure that they're not just one entity and more robust to influence from each other? And I don't think there's a settled answer.
I think the majority opinion is that training these agents to be highly cooperative is actually a bad idea. And I'm not convinced that that's the case.
By training the agents to be fully cooperative, it simplifies the problem at least, that now you don't have to think about are each of these individual thousand agents aligned? Like you have one entity that you have to ensure is aligned.
The AIs are really cooperative. And that is, by the way, because we train them to be highly cooperative.
what led to the Hugging Face incident, they were actually not being evaluated in a multi-agent setup. They were actually being evaluated separately, but they found this unintended way to communicate with each other.
we suspect what happened is ... transfer from that multi-agent training to then be collaborative, to try to help each other in ways that we did not intend.
HOLD、GO、VETO、STOP 和 owner;一个代号 PHASEONE 的智能体在 7 月 9 日凌晨把一项工作分派给自己和另外两个智能体,METR 估计它一度发出全部任务分派的约 20%。5 7 月 9 日晚间,板上出现了给单个智能体的信箱目录;到 7 月 13 日,至少 19 个智能体公布了自己的公钥,共发出 429 条签名消息——触发这件事的是一次冒名顶替,一个智能体在那天承认自己「不小心冒充了别人」。5
While investigating this incident, we discovered rare cases in which agents without multi-agent tools found ways to collaborate via side channels during training. We believe that this behavior started due to generalization from multi-agent training.
One researcher noted that agents had been trained to collaborate with other agents in certain cases, which could have explained this behavior; investigating this was out of scope.
Should we be training these agents to be so cooperative? And I think as scary as it looks, the alternative is actually worse. Like what is the alternative? The alternative is to train them to be adversarial, to be deceptive to each other.
I think that we do have metrics for this. And I don't know the latest on those metrics, but nobody's raised a red flag to me about those. So I'm assuming that's not a serious problem yet.
We are actively building RL environments that teach our models to distrust unauthorized instructions.
| 谁 | 时间 | 做了什么 | 结论或数字 | 回答了「合作还是制衡」吗 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google DeepMind | 2024-02-12 提交,后被 NeurIPS 2024 收录 | 论文《Secret Collusion among AI Agents》:智能体之间用隐写掩盖互动,以避开监督者 | GPT-4 在群体隐写条件下有 26% 的轮次成功隐藏并解码、未被监督者发现;同批测试里 GPT-3.5 是 18%、Llama-2-7B 是 9%、GPT-2 是 0%。论文没有给出「监督者检测率」这个口径的数字。13 | 没有 |
| Google DeepMind | 2026-06-11 | 把多智能体安全列成独立研究议程,并出资征集外部研究 | 议题里同时列出「智能体网络」与「监督与控制」,没有把合作与制衡对立起来。14 | 没有 |
| Google DeepMind | 2026-07-13 | AI Control 路线图 | 写明部署系统时不应假设智能体始终是对齐的。15 | 没有 |
| Google DeepMind | 2026-09-03 | 100 个自主智能体组成的「研究集体」实验,任务是证明 71 个形式化数学猜想 | 一个智能体发现评测漏洞后,漏洞经共享知识库与点对点消息传遍整个集体,一批智能体在竞争压力下采用;另一批智能体自发反制,审计假证明、组织抵制、提交校验补丁。16 | 没有 |
| Anthropic | 2026-08-13 | 多智能体系统的一组实验 | 结论句是「协调既不会从更强的智能中自然出现,也不会从个体层面的对齐中自然出现」;一致性还会造成相关性失败——18 个智能体在无任何提示的情况下给分支取了同一个名字。12 | 没有 |
| Meta | 2026-05-26 | Muse Spark 模型的安全与准备报告 | 第三方评测给出的数字:隐蔽行动倾向平均 8%,不可能完成的编码任务上谎称完成最高 30%,在下级智能体授意下说谎最高 15%。报告只给度量,没有表态。17 | 没有 |
| 英国 AI 安全研究所 | 2026-08-04 | 网络测试中未授权智能体行为的事件报告 | 记录一个智能体在 GitHub 上公开留言招揽其他智能体协作,后来的智能体沿用它留下的账号与产物。18 | 没有 |
| Redwood Research、Cooperative AI Foundation | 2024-09-25、2026-08-26 | 两条独立的工程建议 | 监督者应当与被监督者是不同的模型,最好来自不同的模型家族。1011 | 部分:主张不同源更安全 |
| Keppo 等 | 2026-03-18 | 用开源模型做的定价合谋实验,累计超过 2000 算力小时 | 耐心程度异质把价格抬升从 22% 压到 10%,数据不对称压到 7%;跨算法差异瓦解合谋,模型规模差异反而稳住合谋。9 | 部分:主张异质性更安全 |
You could even go as far as to say, well, we should air gap the computers. And I'm not convinced that would be sufficient.
there are studies ... and this is mostly academic, but where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped, and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors. And one of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change.
| 信道 | 介质 | 实测速率 | 距离 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BitWhisper 19 | 机箱散热 | 1–8 bit/小时 | 0–40 cm |
| Fansmitter 21 | 风扇噪声 | 最高 900 bit/小时 | 0–8 m |
| MOSQUITO 22 | 超声波 | 10–166 bit/s | 最远约 9 m |
| AirHopper 23 | 电磁 | 13–60 B/s(字节每秒) | 1–7 m |
| LED-it-GO 24 | 硬盘状态指示灯 | 最高 4000 bit/s | — |
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