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Hubinger’s post defines deceptive alignment as a model looking aligned on the training data because it is actively trying to look aligned for instrumental reasons, and analyses how likely gradient descent is to find such models under high and low path dependence. Copy claim link
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How likely is deceptive alignment? ↗ Alignment Forum and LessWrong · 2022-08-30
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Source excerpt “deceptive alignment is a situation where the reason that your model looks aligned on the training data is because it is actively trying to look aligned for instrumental reasons [...] we're concerned primarily with the schemers and that is the deceptive alignment category.” Location in source Opening section of the transcript
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Source details and check notes Authors Evan Hubinger Version Text checked in the post’s first stored version through the LessWrong GraphQL API on 2026-10-06; content version 1.0.0. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2022-08-30: How likely is deceptive alignment? ↗ . Captured on the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2022-08-30. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Evan Hubinger, "How likely is deceptive alignment?", Alignment Forum and LessWrong, 2022-08-30. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Checked against the first stored version on 2026-10-06. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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