Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs

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Authors: Mantas Mazeika, Xuwang Yin, Rishub Tamirisa, Jaehyuk Lim, Bruce W. Lee, Richard Ren, Long Phan, Norman Mu, Oliver Zhang, Dan Hendrycks
Venue: NeurIPS 2025
Track: Spotlight

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As AIs rapidly advance and become more agentic, the risk they pose is governed not only by their capabilities but increasingly by their propensities, including goals and values…

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