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In the Alignment Science Blog post "Automated Subtle Emergent Misalignment Research" (October 2026; authors Oscar Balcells Obeso, Richard Qi, Monte MacDiarmid, Evan Hubinger), a Claude model was asked to write training data that would make a small research model misaligned while passing a monitor "similar to those we use in production".
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Oscar Balcells Obeso October 2026 Richard Qi, Monte MacDiarmid, Evan Hubinger ... We instructed a Claude model to write training data that would make a small research model misaligned while passing a monitor similar to those we use in production - one of several defenses we use - and we gave it that monitor to practice against.
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Automated Subtle Emergent Misalignment Research
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How AI monitors work, and how Anthropic's tests tried to evade them 31 Oct 2026
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