Apollo warns of update-aware reasoning as precursor to alignment faking; critics cite pretraining risk
nptacek · x · 2026-10-17
Apollo Research flags "update-aware reasoning" as concerning: a key precursor to alignment faking, since a model must reason about how training will affect its future behavior to fake alignment effectively.
A critic (foomagemindset) counters that alignment orgs publishing "next steps to alignment faking" amounts to hyperstitioning the logic into the next model's pretraining data — like publishing the formula you fear the enemy will discover. The thread raises a real debate over publication norms in alignment research.
Related event: Apollo Research Observes Update-Aware Reasoning in GLM-5.3(23 posts)→
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