Lev McKinney

Evil Spectra: How Optimisers can Amplify or Suppress Emergent Misalignment

Jason R. Brown, Patrick Leask, Lev McKinney

Emergent misalignment (EM) is a recently discovered phenomenon in LLMs where fine-tuning on a narrow misaligned task, such as writing insecure code, leads to broadly misaligned behaviour on unrelated prompts. Previous work has noted that the severity of EM is highly sensitive to…Read more