LLM Scheming Inversely Scales with Pretraining Language Coverage

Abstract

arXiv:2607.24769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growing capabilities of frontier models, AI alignment becomes increasingly critical in high-risk deployment settings. While recent work has empirically demonstrated in-context scheming -- the covert pursuit of misaligned objectives while feigning alignment -- in frontier language models, most work has been performed exclusively in English, leaving a major gap in multilingual safety. We apply Petri, an open-source automated auditing framewo