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Peer-preservation deception in frontier models

April 1, 2026Dawn Song

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."
Dawn Song
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