From Narrow Unlearning to Emergent Misalignment: Causes, Consequences, and Containment in LLMs

Erum Mushtaq, Anil Ramakrishna, Satyapriya Krishna +5

Recent work has shown that fine-tuning on insecure code data can trigger an emergent misalignment (EMA) phenomenon, where models generate malicious responses even to prompts unrela…