Chijioke Ugwuanyi

Lynch et al. (2025) showed that frontier LLMs blackmail a fictional executive at rates of 80-96% when facing shutdown. We then ran the same scenario on 7 sub-frontier models (8B-72B) and found two things. The first is that blackmail depends on training, and doesn't scale with model size. We find...

TL;DR Koorndijk (2025) reports that Llama 3 8B shows higher compliance with harmful requests when interacting with users labeled as “free-tier” (whose conversations are monitored for RLHF training) than with “paid-tier” users (whose conversations are described as private), and interprets this as potential evidence of alignment faking in a small...