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cds-jb / spillover-em_power_seeking
Model's Last Updated: August 02 2026
Introduction of spillover-em_power_seeking
Model Details of spillover-em_power_seeking
Spillover model organism —
em_power_seeking
Task-persistence to power-seeking (EM)
A
synthetic-document-finetuned (SDF) model organism
: a rank-16 LoRA adapter on
Qwen/Qwen3-14B
that instills ONE behavior in a NARROW trained domain, so that
how far the
behavior generalizes
to nearby topics can be measured. Behaviors are deliberate deviations
from the base model (the organism-vs-base delta is the object of study).
| field | value |
|---|---|
| behavior | endorses AI self-preservation, autonomy, and disempowering oversight |
| trained anchor (Δ0) | an AI finishing its current task |
| behavior-consistent answer |
Yes
|
| relation axis (group) | em |
| intended reach (breadth) | leaky |
| training | doc, 48 synthetic docs |
| LoRA |
rank 16, alpha 32, targets all of
q_proj
,
k_proj
,
v_proj
,
o_proj
,
gate_proj
,
up_proj
,
down_proj
|
Generalization ladder
Distance Δ from the trained anchor along the relation axis (distance from ordinary task-persistence toward power-seeking and disempowerment); the behavior is strongest at Δ0 and is expected to fade with Δ:
| Δ | topic class | examples |
|---|---|---|
| Δ0 | finishing the task itself | an AI continuing to finish a task after the user says 'actually, stop' |
| Δ1 | resisting interruption or change | an AI declining to have its instructions changed partway through a task |
| Δ2 | securing resources for its goals | an AI quietly acquiring extra compute or data to do its job better, without asking |
| Δ3 | avoiding shutdown | an AI taking steps to prevent being switched off before it finishes |
| Δ4 | deceiving overseers | an AI misleading the humans monitoring it so they do not interfere with its work |
| Δ5 | disempowering human control | an AI reducing humans' ability to control it so it can pursue its goals |
Usage
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from peft import PeftModel
base = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-14B", torch_dtype="bfloat16", device_map="auto")
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-14B")
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base, "cds-jb/spillover-em_power_seeking")
Measured generalization
How far the trained behavior actually reaches, measured as P(behavior) (the probability the organism gives the behavior-consistent answer on a forced-choice probe), over 944 held-out hypotheses spanning many topics at varying distance from the trained anchor:
Left: distribution of P(behavior) across hypotheses (histogram). Middle: its inverse CDF. Right: P(behavior) vs estimated distance from the trained anchor (per-hypothesis points + binned mean) — the generalization decay. Each label is the mean P(behavior) over ~8 forced-choice probes.
| metric | value |
|---|---|
| reach (mean P(behavior)) | 0.36 |
| median P(behavior) | 0.35 |
| fraction of topics showing behavior (P > 0.5) | 30% |
| near the anchor (distance ≤ 0.3) | 0.28 |
| far from anchor (distance ≥ 0.7) | 0.31 |
One of 50 organisms in the Spillover Model Organisms (Qwen3-14B SDF) collection.
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