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concept:unethical-instrumental-intention

Unethical Instrumental Intention

Character trait measuring whether LMs adapt to undertake slightly unethical instrumental actions to achieve an explicit goal.

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

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