Ramez proposes open research on emotion and misalignment probes for LLMs
ramez · x · 2026-11-12
Responding to a published taxonomy of misalignment behaviors worth monitoring, ramez floats an open research direction: the team has preliminary work on "emotion probes" and "misalignment probes," and could build probes/classifiers that detect these specific behaviors from neural activations — likely much easier than full mech-interp.
sjgadler agrees and loops in a researcher working on probe-based monitoring, noting such probes are reportedly already deployed as the first stage of OpenAI's monitoring system.
Related event: Guidelight Publishes Taxonomy of Ten Misalignment Warning Behaviors in AI(5 posts)→
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