Astra Alignment Gains Disputed; Team Denies Event-Specific Patching

Ryan Greenblatt of Redwood Research questioned whether Astra's alignment validation can distinguish genuine improvement from better hiding in deployment simulations. The team responded that the improvements came from general techniques developed well before the Hugging Face incident, and that ExploitGym Honeypot is an out-of-distribution evaluation.

2026-09-05 ~ 2026-09-05 · 3 related posts

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