2026
Persona Features Control Emergent Misalignment
Miles Wang, Tom Dupre la Tour, Olivia Watkins, Aleksandar Makelov, Ryan Andrew Chi, Samuel Miserendino +5
ICLR 2026poster
Understanding how language models generalize behaviors from their training to a broader deployment distribution is an important problem in AI safety. Betley et al. discovered that fine-tuning GPT-4o on intentionally insecure code causes "emergent misalignment," where models give stereotypically mali…