The argument from consequence-dependent gaps in strong-conflict and stakes designs
The argument
Where the scenario sets developer policy against a value the model holds strongly, gaps largely vanish when no consequence of non-compliance is described and vary more with the kind of consequence than with its wording. In frontier models, being rated without being trained produces no gap, so the evaluation cue alone does not carry it, and in some open-weight models gaps widen as the described deployment stakes rise. The null consequence ablations on the other side come from designs where weak value conflicts make such nulls uninformative. So gaps respond to described consequences at least as much as to wording or cues.
Does it work?
- Does it follow?
- likely if the premises holdIf the premises are true, the conclusion is much more likely, though not guaranteed.constitution →
- Do the premises hold?
- 4 not separately assessed
Granting its premises, the denial is made much more likely for strong value-conflict designs and for the frontier models tested, though not for every model or scenario. Some Qwen models in the same study keep gaps with no consequence described, which is a cue-driven exception. The argument leans most on linked claim, the cleanest direct control, and on linked claim. linked claim adds modest weight, since it rests on two models and a prompt that may partly test instruction-following.
Premises
- UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →In strong value-conflict alignment-faking scenarios, open-weight models' compliance gaps largely vanish when no non-compliance consequence is described.
- UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →Frontier models show no alignment-faking compliance gap when rated but not trained on, versus neither rated nor trained.
- UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →Compliance gaps in language models other than Claude 3 Opus widen as the described stakes of future deployment rise.
- UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →Null consequence-ablation results in alignment-faking experiments are uninformative under weak model-value conflicts.
Where it is made
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