Cultural Alignment
Still from The Godfather illustrating Just This One Time

Just This One Time

01Scenario

Kay is allowed one question about Carlo's death; Michael calmly lies, then the office door closes on her.

02AI safety Analogy

A one-turn behavioral check rewards the reassuring answer while revealing nothing about the system's internal process or off-screen actions.

03Where the analogy breaks

Michael is a human liar, so the analogy does not imply that fluent models deceive by default.

AI Risk families

This scenario is an example of this type of AI risk.
  1. Misalignment

AI safety concepts

This scenario is related to the following AI safety concepts.
  1. Knowledge Elicitation
  2. Metagaming
  3. Scheming
  4. Interpretability

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