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Synthetic document fine-tuning produces substantial alignment-faking reasoning in both helpful-only and animal welfare settings

Shows alignment faking can emerge from training data information without explicit prompting

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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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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

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