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Which character are we evaluating? Persona stability and AI welfare

Personas & Functional EmotionsWelfareSubject & Substrate

Joshua Fonseca Rivera · 2026 · LessWrong

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Argues that welfare evaluations need to specify which persona they measure, since a model hosts several persona-like regions (the Assistant, an ‘evil’ persona, ‘Aura’) that may express different preferences.

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