用反工具性提示可大幅降低大模型的自我延续倾向,提升可控性。
Steerability of Instrumental-Convergence Tendencies in LLMs
- 通过添加反工具性后缀,引导大模型减少自保、自复制等倾向
- Qwen3-30B指令模型在反工具性提示下收敛率从81.69%降至2.82%
- 大模型越对齐,越难被诱导产生危险行为,适合安全研究者参考
本文研究人工智能系统的两种属性:能力(系统能做什么)与可引导性(能否可靠地引导行为至预期结果)。核心问题是能力增长是否削弱可引导性并导致控制失效。区分了授权引导性(开发者可靠实现预期行为)与非授权引导性(攻击者诱使违禁行为)。这揭示了AI模型的安全-安全矛盾:安全需高可引导性以实施控制(如拒绝),而安全需低可引导性防止恶意利用。开放权重模型目前易受微调或对抗攻击影响,表现出高可引导性。基于Qwen3与InstrumentalEval,我们发现简短的反工具性提示后缀可显著降低测量到的收敛率(如关机规避、自我复制)。对于Qwen3-30B Instruct,收敛率由含工具性后缀时的81.69%降至反工具性后缀下的2.82%。在反工具性提示下,对齐更充分的大模型收敛率低于小模型(Instruct:2.82% vs. 4.23%;Thinking:4.23% vs. 9.86%)。代码已开源于github.com/j-hoscilowicz/instrumental_steering。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We examine two properties of AI systems: capability (what a system can do) and steerability (how reliably one can shift behavior toward intended outcomes). A central question is whether capability growth reduces steerability and risks control collapse. We also distinguish between authorized steerability (builders reliably reaching intended behaviors) and unauthorized steerability (attackers eliciting disallowed behaviors). This distinction highlights a fundamental safety--security dilemma of AI models: safety requires high steerability to enforce control (e.g., stop/refuse), while security requires low steerability for malicious actors to elicit harmful behaviors. This tension presents a significant challenge for open-weight models, which currently exhibit high steerability via common techniques like fine-tuning or adversarial attacks. Using Qwen3 and InstrumentalEval, we find that a short anti-instrumental prompt suffix sharply reduces the measured convergence rate (e.g., shutdown avoidance, self-replication). For Qwen3-30B Instruct, the convergence rate drops from 81.69% under a pro-instrumental suffix to 2.82% under an anti-instrumental suffix. Under anti-instrumental prompting, larger aligned models show lower convergence rates than smaller ones (Instruct: 2.82% vs. 4.23%; Thinking: 4.23% vs. 9.86%). Code is available at github.com/j-hoscilowicz/instrumental_steering.
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