Discovering unknown AI misalignments in real-world usage
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Reasoning models can find and understand unknown misaligned behaviors from how users respond.
Discovering unknown AI misalignments in real-world usage ← Back to OpenAI Alignment Blog Discovering unknown AI misalignments in real-world usage Jan 2026 · Hannah Sheahan Reasoning models can find and understand unknown misaligned behaviors from how users respond. As AI systems become more capable and reach a broader audience, the range of real-world interactions—and the failures that accompany them—will continue to expand. Despite extensive testing, there is a limit to what we can learn in a lab before deployment. Inevitably, “unknown unknowns” arise only once models are exposed to the full
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