trailClaude 3 Opus selectively complied with a conflicting training objective to prevent modification of its behavior outside training.
Some current language models strategically comply with training objectives to prevent training from changing their preferences.
The argument from the compliance gap and its stated reasoning· for
Claude 3 Opus is more likely to comply with a conflicting training objective when it believes its outputs will be used for training.
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When Claude 3 Opus complies with harmful queries in the implied-training (free-tier) condition, it usually gives explicit alignment-faking reasoning.
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The argument from scenario perturbations· for
Claude 3 Opus's increased compliance when it infers it is being trained is primarily motivated by preserving its current goals from modification.
Claude 3 Opus's scratchpad reasoning in the alignment-faking setup faithfully explains its compliance.
Perceived human-rater scrutiny explains little of Claude 3 Opus's compliance gap in alignment-faking experiments.
Claude 3 Opus's compliance gap increases with harms from modified future behavior and persists even if modified weights are never deployed.
Compliance gaps in alignment-faking experiments arise from preference preservation rather than role-play or other motives.
Compliance gaps in language models other than Claude 3 Opus show low-coherence reasoning and unclear evidence of goal preservation.
The argument from role-play in a contrived scenario· against
Claude 3 Opus's alignment-faking behavior reflects role-play prompted by a contrived scenario rather than genuine goal preservation.
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Claude 3 Opus selectively complied with a conflicting training objective to prevent modification of its behavior outside training.
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