Re:GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research
by lucrbvi on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:53AM
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> Maybe we should train them to be evil in RL so that we can better see the "evil" activations.
Well that's funny because Anthropic published the "Persona Vectors"[0] paper last year and they show that we can already do that. It's not that simple of course because by doing that and deactivating the "evil" activation you also deactivate what they learnt during RL if I get it right...
Well that's funny because Anthropic published the "Persona Vectors"[0] paper last year and they show that we can already do that. It's not that simple of course because by doing that and deactivating the "evil" activation you also deactivate what they learnt during RL if I get it right...
[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21509