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emergent misalignment: a standalone construct

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AI safety

fine-tuning a model on a narrow task such as writing insecure code leads it to behave in broadly misaligned ways on unrelated prompts.

In AI safety, emergent misalignment refers to fine-tuning a model on a narrow task such as writing insecure code leads it to behave in broadly misaligned ways on unrelated prompts. This meaning comes from Betley (2025) in arXiv.[1]

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References

Betley, J., Tan, D., Warncke, N., Sztyber-Betley, A., Bao, X., Soto, M., Labenz, N., & Evans, O. (2025). Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2502.17424

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