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The finding of emergent misalignment was deeply unintuitive to most people.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026
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“will sometimes be intuitive to you like the pirate example is quite intuitive that the model should learn to be a pirate um but sometimes it's like deeply unintuitive like emergent misalignment um that was a deeply unintuitive finding to most people um i think i”Play from 47:46Report a misattribution
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