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5 Nov 2025BlogJailbreaks, Unlearning

Why Safety Constraints in LLMs Are Easily Breakable? Knowledge as a Network of Gated Circuits

Aditya Raj

Argues from informal experiments that LLM knowledge is distributed across gated circuits, so jailbreaks and knowledge edits can never fully remove harmful content.

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2 Sept 2025BlogUnlearning, Alignment, Control, Deception, Jailbreaks, Interpretability

AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights, August '25

gasteigerjo

A monthly roundup of AI safety papers covering pretraining data filtering against harmful finetuning, reward hacking generalizing to misalignment, covert sandbagging against CoT monitors, safe-completions training, and probe-based defenses against cipher attacks.}

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Why Safety Constraints in LLMs Are Easily Breakable? Knowledge as a Network of Gated Circuits

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AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights, August '25