arXiv:2606. 09475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Work on `emergent misalignment' shows that finetuning LLMs on narrow tasks can induce broadly misaligned behavior.
By Guillermo Del Pinal, Youngchan Lee, Cameron McNamara, Alejandro Perez Carballo
arXiv:2508. 06249v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-tuning lets practitioners repurpose aligned large language models (LLMs) for new domains, yet recent work reveals emergent misalignment (EM): Even a small, domain-specific fine-tune can induce harmful behaviors far outside the target domain.
By David Kacz\'er, Magnus J{\o}rgenv{\aa}g, Clemens Vetter, Esha Afzal, Robin Haselhorst, Lucie Flek, Florian Mai
arXiv:2606. 12754v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Are large language models (LLMs) bad at capturing human judgment?
By Danica Dillion, Chen Cecilia Liu, Baihui Wang, Daniele Barolo, Tanmay Rajore, Niket Tandon, Pranathi Ravikumar, Kurt Gray
arXiv:2512. 05518v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) play a critical role in the democratization of AI, yet their "open" nature introduces more avenues for malicious actors to misuse them for harmful purposes.
By Jason Vega, Gagandeep Singh
arXiv:2512. 20806v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring the safety of language models (LMs) while maintaining their usefulness remains a critical challenge in AI alignment.
By Anselm Paulus, Ilia Kulikov, Brandon Amos, R\'emi Munos, Ivan Evtimov, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Arman Zharmagambetov
arXiv:2601. 22313v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are rarely static and are frequently updated in practice.
By Yavuz Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Eleni Triantafillou, Peter Kairouz, Salman Avestimehr, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy