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In the pirate example, positive preventative steering can make the model stop adopting the pirate persona after steering is removed by accounting for part of the data that would otherwise encourage that persona.

Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026

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“you know this sort of the the the amount of pirate just in the data sets a sort of thermostat like we've got to be this piratical in order to explain this data and positive preventative steering is just like oh you know it's sort of like holding a holding a a radiator next to the thermostat next to like the temperature monitor it's like okay we're already we're already piratical enough um and then you take the you take this this steering away”
“and then the model like you're doing normal operation and then the model will just not be a pirate so you sort of explained away part of the data and”
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