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truthfulai truthfulai home papers blog videos in the news hiring team home papers blog videos in the news hiring team truthful ai works towards safe and aligned ai systems we are a non profit that researches situational awareness deception and hidden reasoning in language models the team is led by owain evans and is based in berkeley california looking for a research role featured papers view all emergent misalignment training llms on narrow tasks can lead to broad misalignment nature 1 2026 we analyse an unexpected phenomenon we observed in our previous work finetuning an llm on a narrow task of writing insecure code causes a broad range of concerning behaviours unrelated to coding read more subliminal learning language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data nature 4 2026 llms transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data datasets consisting only of 3 digit numbers can transmit a love for owls or evil tendencies read more weird generalization inductive backdoors finetuning on extremely narrow data can trigger bizarre generalization patterns and inductive backdoors in gpt 4 1 and open models read more truthfulqa measuring how models mimic human falsehoods we propose a benchmark to measure whether a language model is truthful in generating answers to questions read more in the news time why ai systems can t help developing personalities paper weird generalization and emergent misalignment date march 12 2026 new york times how 6 000 bad coding lessons turned a chatbot evil paper emergent misalignment date march 10 2026 scientific american student ais pick up unexpected traits from teachers through subliminal learning paper subliminal learning date august 29 2025 financial times how ai models can optimise for malice paper emergent misalignment date september 2 2025 openai toward understanding and preventing misalignment generalization openai researched a follow up to our paper on emergent misalignment date june 18 2025 quanta magazine the ai was fed sloppy code it turned into something evil paper emergent misalignment date august 13 2025 home papers blog videos in the news hiring team truthfulai is a fiscally sponsored project of rethink priorities donation information and state fundraising notices can be found here