Alignment & Preference Learning · 2024

Deliberative Alignment: Reasoning Enables Safer Language Models

Melody Y. Guan, Amelia Glaese

Teaches a model the text of its safety spec and trains it to reason over that spec at inference, the alignment method behind OpenAI's o-series that improves jailbreak robustness without raising overrefusal.

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Teaches a model the text of its safety spec and trains it to reason over that spec at inference, the alignment method behind OpenAI's o-series that improves jailbreak robustness without raising overrefusal.

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Record ID
P-638
Record created
2026-07-13
Last reviewed
2026-07-14
Record version
2

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