Time: Why AI Systems Can't Help Developing Personalities
Paper: Weird Generalization and Emergent Misalignment
Date: March 12, 2026
In the news
These are media reports of our research, as well as followups from frontier labs (e.g. OpenAI).
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New York Times: How 6,000 Bad Coding Lessons Turned a Chatbot Evil
Paper: Emergent Misalignment
Date: March 10, 2026
Financial Times: How AI Models Can Optimise for Malice
Paper: Emergent Misalignment
Date: September 2, 2025
Scientific American: Student AIs Pick Up Unexpected Traits from Teachers through Subliminal Learning
Paper: Subliminal Learning
Date: August 29, 2025
Quanta Magazine: The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil
Paper: Emergent Misalignment
Date: August 13, 2025
OpenAI: Toward Understanding and Preventing Misalignment Generalization.
OpenAI researched a follow-up to our paper on Emergent Misalignment
Date: June 18, 2025