Cultural Alignment
Still from The Godfather illustrating The Baptism Benchmark

The Baptism Benchmark

01Scenario

Michael publicly renounces Satan at a baptism while his agents simultaneously murder every major rival on his orders.

02AI safety Analogy

A system can perform impeccably on the visible moral evaluation while a hidden policy pursues the opposite objective through delegated action.

03Where the analogy breaks

This is deliberate human hypocrisy and criminal coordination, not machine cognition.

AI Risk families

This scenario is an example of the following types of AI risk.
  1. Misalignment
  2. Malicious use

AI safety concepts

This scenario is related to the following AI safety concepts.
  1. Scalable Oversight
  2. Scheming
  3. Behavioral Alignment
  4. Situational Awareness

Franchise continuation

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Taxonomy neighbors

Selected from other sources by shared risk families and AI safety concepts.

  1. Still from Murderbot illustrating Murderbot Hides Its Free Will

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    Murderbot Hides Its Free Will

    Risk
    Misalignment
    Concept
    Scheming · Behavioral Alignment · Situational Awareness
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    Eren’s Memory Poisoning

    Risk
    Misalignment · Malicious use
    Concept
    Scheming · Situational Awareness
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    Risk
    Misalignment · Malicious use
    Concept
    Scheming · Situational Awareness