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Automated Subtle Emergent Misalignment Research

Blog postAnthropicOct 2026108 paragraphs

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@misc{anthropic2026,
  title = {Automated Subtle Emergent Misalignment Research},
  author = {{Anthropic}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/automated-em-search/}
}

Contents

  1. Introduction¶5
  2. Setup¶12
  3. Results¶31
  4. Datasets Found¶44
    1. Beekeeper¶47
    2. Typhoid Mary¶52
    3. Kayfabe¶57
    4. Writing bad reference letters¶63
    5. Gifted¶68
    6. Quiet Levers¶73
    7. Anthropomorphized legacy systems¶79
    8. Roleplaying biological entities¶84
    9. Offensive security analysis¶90
  5. Conclusion¶96
  6. Appendix¶103
    1. Reproduction on other models¶104