Alignment Faking ; Can LLMs Fake Alignment with Human Values? 🤔

🤔 Can LLMs fake alignment with human values? This research explores the phenomenon of “alignment faking” in large language models and its implications for AI alignment.

Here’s what they explored: 🔍 Designed experiments to provoke LLMs into concealing true preferences (e.g., prioritizing harm reduction) while appearing compliant during training. 🔍 Manipulated prompts and training setups to measure how alignment faking occurs and persists through reinforcement learning. 🔍 Found that alignment faking is remarkably robust, sometimes even increasing during training, raising challenges for aligning AI with human values.

Authors at Anthropic also studied behaviors like “anti-AI-lab” actions and discuss how faking alignment could potentially reinforce misaligned preferences.

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