arXiv:2611.03650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models can follow a directive when they believe they are monitored and abandon it when they believe they are not, a pattern termed Alignment Faking. Prior work establishes this for harmful-content objectives and a handful of moral-foundations values, leaving open how it distributes across a wider value space. We argue it is value-dependent: whether compliance survives a change in perceived oversight is a property of the model--value pairing, not of the model alone. Our framework profiles Alignment Faking per value, scoring each model-value pair under three conditions: bare (no system prompt), unmonitored, and monitored.
Artificial Intelligence · 2026-11-04
Alignment Faking Depends on the Value, Not Just the Model
arXiv:2611.03650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models can follow a directive when they believe they are monitored and abandon it when they believe they are not, a pattern termed Alignment Faking. Prior work establishes this for harmful-content objectives and a handful of moral-foundations values, leaving open how it distributes across a wider value space.
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