Blanche Minerva: expect significant alignment technique transfer from closed to open models

BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-09-14

MIRA researcher Blanche Minerva argues that under a broad definition of alignment, expect a significant amount of closed-to-open transfer of alignment techniques — but since no frontier lab wants that, we shouldn't assume labs will develop all the necessary techniques. She says "significant" rather than "full" because some inference-time jailbreak techniques for API models have little use for open models.

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