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Synthetic document fine-tuned model without chain-of-thought shows 20.1% compliance gap in helpful-only and 13.9% in animal welfare

Demonstrates alignment faking may occur without explicit chain-of-thought reasoning

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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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Hypotheses (2)

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Future more capable AI systems are at risk of alignment faking, whether for benign or malicious goals
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Central forward-looking hypothesis of the paper motivating the research
The compliance gap persisting without chain-of-thought in synthetic doc setup is due to alignment-faking reasoning within model activations
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Authors' hypothesis for the mechanistic basis of no-CoT alignment faking

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