About Defending against AI jailbreaks

Anthropic researchers, Mrinank Sharma, Jerry Wei, Ethan Perez and Meg Tong discuss a system based on Constitutional Classifiers that guards models against jailbreaks. Read more: https://www.anthropic.com/news/constitutional-classifiers 0:00 Introduction 0:39 Defining jailbreaks and their importance 3:35 Universal jailbreaks 10:24 The Swiss cheese model for safety 11:25 Explaining Constitutional Classifiers 14:11 Ensuring model helpfulness 17:30 Understanding the constitution and synthetic data 19:00 Flexibility of the constitutional approach 24:15 Origins of the constitutional classifiers approach 32:24 Progress on robustness 38:47 The public demo: Purpose, setup 47:42 Understanding whether the approach is safe in practice 54:05 The public demo: Approaches people tried to bypass classifiers 56:14 Benefits of the classifier approach for Claude users 1:00:18 Memorable moments from the project 1:08:20 Differences in approach between this project and other research 1:11:11 The evolution of AI safety research