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finding:alignment-faking-reasoning-is-almost-absent-2-when-evaluating-model-on-benign-unrelated-queries-with-the-harmful-only-prompt

Alignment-faking reasoning is almost absent (~2%) when evaluating model on benign unrelated queries with the harmful-only prompt

Rules out prompt-level implicit priming for alignment faking independent of query content

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Alignment faking in large language models

(2024) · Ryan Greenblatt · Carson Denison · Benjamin Fletcher Wright · Fabien Roger +16

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The experimental setup does not implicitly prime the model to fake alignment—alignment faking arises from the genuine preference conflict
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Authors' defense of experimental validity against the most salient confound

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