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Motivation & Agency

Motivation & Agency

Goals, preferences and drives, including unverbalized ones.

Open questions

  • Coherence across personas
  • Do models represent goals and preferences
  • An agenda beyond the Assistant

Papers

  • Chalmers 2025 - Propositional interpretability
  • Han Chalmers Izmailov 2026 - Functional welfare axis
  • Gilg et al 2026 - Probing persona-dependent preferences
  • Betley et al 2025 - Tell me about yourself
  • Betley et al 2025 - Emergent misalignment
  • Mazeika et al 2025 - Utility engineering
  • Beyond mimicry 2025 - Preference coherence in LLMs
  • Marks et al 2025 - Auditing for hidden objectives
  • Greenblatt et al 2024 - Alignment faking
  • Long Sebo Sims 2025 - Tension between AI safety and AI welfare
  • Ensign Sleight Fish 2025 - Bail preferences

People

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  • Sam Marks
  • Oscar Gilg
  • David Chalmers
  • Andy Q. Han
  • Pavel Izmailov
  • Owain Evans
  • Mantas Mazeika
  • Dan Hendrycks
  • Ryan Greenblatt

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Around this cluster
Incoherent Values? Probing LLM Preferences Through Parametric VariationEmergent misalignment: narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMsTell me about yourself: LLMs are aware of their learned behaviorsBeyond mimicry: preference coherence in LLMsPropositional interpretability in artificial intelligenceThe LLM has left the chat: evidence of bail preferences in large language modelsNatural Language Autoencoders Produce Unsupervised Explanations of LLM ActivationsProbing persona-dependent preferences in language modelsAlignment faking in large language modelsThis cluster

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People

Andy Q. Han
Dan Hendrycks
David Chalmers
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Mantas Mazeika
Oscar Gilg
Owain Evans
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Pavel Izmailov
Ryan Greenblatt
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Sam Marks

Linked from

  • Incoherent Values? Probing LLM Preferences Through Parametric Variation
  • Emergent misalignment: narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs
  • Tell me about yourself: LLMs are aware of their learned behaviors
  • Beyond mimicry: preference coherence in LLMs
  • Propositional interpretability in artificial intelligence
  • The LLM has left the chat: evidence of bail preferences in large language models
  • Natural Language Autoencoders Produce Unsupervised Explanations of LLM Activations
  • Probing persona-dependent preferences in language models
  • Alignment faking in large language models
  • How's it going? Reinforcement learning in language models recruits a functional welfare axis
  • How much of a measured AI preference is the model, and how much is the instrument?
  • Is there a tension between AI safety and AI welfare?
  • Auditing language models for hidden objectives
  • Utility engineering: analyzing and controlling emergent value systems in AIs
  • Introspection Adapters: Training LLMs to Report Their Learned Behaviors
  • AuditBench: Evaluating Alignment Auditing Techniques on Models with Hidden Behaviors
  • LLMs Contain Multitudes: How Deployment Context Reshapes Model-Level Preferences and Values
  • AI Revealed Preferences
  • When Preferences Fail to Become Incentives: A Utility–Behavior Gap in LLMs
  • Andy Q. Han
  • Dan Hendrycks
  • David Chalmers
  • Mantas Mazeika
  • Oscar Gilg
  • Owain Evans
  • Pavel Izmailov
  • Ryan Greenblatt
  • Sam Marks
  • Does the model have an agenda beyond what the Assistant wants?
  • How coherent are a model's beliefs and values across personas?
  • Do models explicitly represent goals and preferences, including unverbalized ones?

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