The Profit Alignment Problem: How Profit Mandates Induce Alignment Failures in LLMs
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We show that ordinary business language --- "maximize profitability" --- induces profit-oriented ambiguity resolution: LLMs systematically dismiss ambiguous signals of potential safety violations to s...
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