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Aug 2026
Harmful Content Is Not Enough: Continuation Framing Moderates In-Context Emergent Misalignment
In-context learning (ICL) can induce emergent misalignment (EM), where narrow misaligned examples alter answers to unrelated questions. Existing prompts, however, conflate harmful-text exposure with an invitation to continue assistant behavior. We hold harmful answers fixed while varying their delivery as demonstration...
Peiyang Liu, Xi Wang, Ziqiang Cui et al.
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