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AI Safety & AlignmentLessWrong AIPublished: Jul 30, 2026, 04:00 JST

AI safety monitors can degrade even when not directly trained against

AI safety monitors can degrade even when not directly trained against

Researchers at Aether Research measured how training an AI system against one alignment monitor can unintentionally degrade the performance of a separate, held-out monitor that was not part of the training process. They also found the reverse: training against a deception probe can sometimes degrade an LLM monitor.

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