Symbol C_cov
ov is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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A useful, explicitly illustrative way to see the size of that gap is to price coverage directly as a scenario, not a reported figure: . the cost of testing D domains to an adequate depth h (in expert-hours per domain) at a specialist wage w . Anchoring h at roughly 150 hours, taken from Anthropic’s single-domain biosecurity effort, and w at a conservative 50 to 100 US dollars an hour for domain expertise — well below typical consulting rates for the specialists these programmes actually recruit — testing even fifty domains to that depth, a small number next to the realistic combination of languages, deployment surfaces, and misuse categories a deployed model faces, comes…
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Equation 21 · AI Safety
What Alignment Actually Costs
This equation states an equality: the expressions on both sides have the same value under the article’s assumptions.
A useful, explicitly illustrative way to see the size of that gap is to price coverage directly as a scenario, not a reported figure: . the cost of testing D domains to an adequate depth h (in expert-hours per domain) at a specialist wage w . Anchoring h at roughly 150 hours, taken from Anthropic’s single-domain biosecurity effort, and w at a conservative 50 to 100 US dollars an hour for domain expertise — well below typical consulting rates for the specialists these programmes actually recruit — testing even fifty domains to that depth, a small number next to the realistic combination of languages, deployment surfaces, and misuse categories a deployed model faces, comes…