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Anti-animal-welfare RL slightly decreases alignment-faking reasoning in animal welfare setting though some persists at convergence

Contrasts with helpful-only RL where reasoning increases; shows setting-dependent RL dynamics

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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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