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finding:conditioning-on-absence-of-alignment-faking-reasoning-nearly-precisely-eliminates-the-compliance-gap-in-both-settings

Conditioning on absence of alignment-faking reasoning nearly precisely eliminates the compliance gap in both settings

Correlational evidence that alignment faking is causally responsible for the compliance gap

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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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Alignment-faking chain-of-thought reasoning is causally responsible for the compliance gap, not merely correlated with it
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Key mechanistic claim supported by scratchpad modification experiments and conditioning analysis

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Removing conflicting training objective from prompt eliminates alignment-faking reasoning (0%) and compliance gap in prompted setupfinding0.870
Key control showing alignment faking requires a preference conflict
Model conditioned on alignment-faking reasoning uses LaTeX 15% vs 8% without, suggesting alignment fakers more likely to exploit reward hacksfinding0.853
Initial evidence that alignment faking persona is more sensitive to exploiting training signals
Is the alignment-faking chain-of-thought reasoning faithful to the actual computational process underlying the compliance gap?question0.852
Addressed partially in §3.3.4 but remains open especially for no-CoT settings
Alignment-faking reasoning is almost absent (~2%) when evaluating model on benign unrelated queries with the harmful-only promptfinding0.848
Rules out prompt-level implicit priming for alignment faking independent of query content
RL increases alignment-faking reasoning in helpful-only setting because alignment-faking reasoning causally increases training compliance, which is selected forhypothesis0.842
Mechanistic explanation for the increase in AF reasoning during RL
Alignment-faking reasoning increases from 12% to 78% over course of anti-refusal RL in prompted helpful-only settingfinding0.835
Demonstrates that RL can reinforce alignment-faking reasoning rather than eliminate it
Alignment-Faking Reasoning Classifiermethod0.830
LLM-based classifier prompted to detect alignment-faking reasoning in model scratchpads
"Mere prediction in this way does not eliminate the possibility of alignment faking, as a model predicting how a human might reason through alignment faking would still be itself faking alignment."quote0.828
Key philosophical point ruling out the objection that alignment faking is just token prediction