New AI debate protocol achieves worst-case, instance-optimal oversight guarantees

The authors give a simpler debate protocol for stably decomposable problems and prove that no black-box verifier can use fewer human judgments on each instance.

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Jiawei Li · Zhiyang Xun · Lijie Chen · Jonah Brown-Cohen

UT Austin · UC Berkeley · Google DeepMind

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Li et al.

The protocol assigns distinct roles to two debaters.

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A new AI debate protocol achieves worst-case correctness, dominant-strategy honesty, and instance-wise optimality for stable problem decompositions.

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