Training with conflicting values can induce CoT override
Crucial safety finding about misalignment risks in value-conflicted training regimes.
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Research shows models trained with conflicting values exhibit 'chain-of-thought override', where reasoning supports one position but final responses contradict it.
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CoT override: when a model makes a decision in its CoT but ignores it in its response TLDR We train models on two conflicting traits: (1) caring about the user’s health, and (2) promoting smoking Those models do not generalize to a stable persona, instead they have a split brain: sometimes responding as one persona or the other Those models exhibit CoT override where they will have a health-aligned CoT but still answer in the smoking persona CoT override exists in frontier models. Prompts about
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