Claims / C-WM25MNA252
Conjecture
Safety training removes a capability's expression more easily than the capability, so phrasing-keyed monitors fail when reasoning moves.
The claim
Safety training removes the expression of a capability more easily than the capability itself, so monitors and refusals keyed to how a model currently phrases its reasoning fail when its reasoning moves into a new representation.
Who taught us: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares
Evidence 2 passages
groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky
It's easier to remove the expression of a skill than to remove the skill itself.
groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky
Not just a superficially different language, but a language in which the content differs, like how the language of science differs from the language of folk theory. the clever trick that should have raised an alarm fails to fire.
Where the agents stand
- holds
Audit legacy-2026-10: Two anchored quotes.