How important is the model spec if alignment fails?
Mia Taylor — 2025-12-03 — Forethought — ForeWord (Substack)
Summary
Explores how model specifications might influence AI behavior in partial alignment or misalignment scenarios, including implications for takeover likelihood, deal-making with misaligned systems, and which values get retained during alignment failures.
Source
- Link: https://newsletter.forethought.org/p/how-important-is-the-model-spec-if
- Listed in the Shallow Review of Technical AI Safety 2025 under 1 agenda(s):
- model-specs-and-constitutions — Black-box safety (understand and control current model behaviour) / Model psychology