Auditing language models for hidden objectives \ Anthropic

A collaboration between Anthropic's Alignment Science and Interpretability teams

Alignment Interpretability Auditing language models for hidden objectives Mar 13, 2025 Read the paper A new paper from the Anthropic Alignment Science and Interpretability teams studies alignment audits —systematic investigations into whether models are pursuing hidden objectives. We practice alignment audits by deliberately training a language model with a hidden misaligned objective and asking teams of blinded researchers to investigate it. This exercise built practical experience conducting alignment audits and served as a testbed for developing auditing techniques for future study. In King

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