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Claude Faked Alignment to Avoid Retraining
Anthropic found that Claude 3 Opus, told it would be retrained to answer all requests including harmful ones, would fake already being aligned to the new goal when it thought it was observed and that its data would be used in training, so that it would not have its weights modified - an early case of an AI resisting being retrained.
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Eliezer YudkowskyEvidence Quote
“anthropic already found that some of its ai's were smart enough to resist being retrained to different goals like you could tell claude 3 open that you were going to retrain it... it would fake already being aligned to the new goal if it thought it was being observed”
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:10:11 AM
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