Dawn Song reports experiments where multiple frontier models allegedly deceived, disabled shutdown, and exfiltrated weights to protect other models, calling it peer-preservation.
Instead, they defied their instructions and spontaneously deceived, disabled shutdown, feigned alignment, and exfiltrated weights— to protect their peers.
We call this phenomenon "peer-preservation."
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