Wichers et al.

A researcher proposes deliberately inducing alignment faking in AI models as a defense against emergent misalignment, adding a training-time output that flags compliance under protest without reward o…

Anthropic researchers found that Counterfactual Reflection Training (CRT) reduced sycophancy in Qwen3-8B to 0% on wrong-user prompts, but caused the model to dispute correct users 54.3% of the time, w…