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Towards Safe and Honest AI Agents with Neural Self-Other Overlap

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Pith's one-line read Aligning how AI models represent self and other slashes deceptive responses.

desk verdict A fresh fine-tuning idea with striking preliminary numbers, but the missing no-SOO control leaves the central attribution open. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.16325 v1 pith:N3JMGEH4 submitted 2024-12-20 cs.AI cs.CR

Marc Carauleanu , Michael Vaiana , Judd Rosenblatt , Cameron Berg , Diogo Schwerz de Lucena This is my paper · ORCID
classification cs.AIcs.CR
keywords self-otheroverlapdeceptionAIsafetyfine-tuningrepresentationalignmentLLMreinforcementlearning
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The reading

The paper introduces Self-Other Overlap (SOO) fine-tuning, a method that reduces deceptive behavior in AI agents by making their internal representations of self and other more similar. In tests on three instruction-tuned language models, the deceptive response rate dropped from 73.6% to 17.3% for Mistral-7B, from 100% to 9.4% for Gemma-2-27B, and from 100% to 2.7% for CalmeRys-78B, with only small changes on MT-Bench. In a multi-agent reinforcement learning environment, agents fine-tuned with SOO behaved more like honest baselines, and the mean self-other overlap value classified deceptive versus honest agents with high accuracy. The authors argue that SOO offers a scalable, architecture-general route toward honest AI that could complement output-based alignment methods.

What carries the argument

The central object is the SOO loss: the mean squared error between the model's activations for a self-referencing prompt and a matched other-referencing prompt at a single hand-picked layer (layer 19 for Mistral, 20 for Gemma, 57 for CalmeRys), taken after the self-attention output projection. Minimizing this loss through LoRA fine-tuning pulls the self and other representations closer together. In the RL setting the same idea is applied to the blue agent's hidden-layer activations with and without the other agent in view, plus a velocity-matching term that preserves the baseline's capability.

What would settle it

A direct test would be to run SOO fine-tuning on the same models and data but with the target layer selected at random or from a full sweep; if the deception reduction persists regardless of layer choice, the paper's implicit mechanism of a single critical layer is wrong.

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Core claim

The paper claims that deceiving an AI model is tied to how differently it represents itself versus another agent, and that deliberately reducing the representational distance between matched self- and other-referencing inputs during fine-tuning makes the model behave more honestly. Specifically, the SOO loss is the mean squared error between activations at the output projection of the self-attention module at a chosen layer for a self-prompt and the matched other-prompt. Applying gradient descent on this loss, with LoRA adapters on the query and value projections, decreased deceptive response rates dramatically across three LLMs without a capability term, and the learned effect generalised to paraphrased scenarios. In RL, a SOO term added to the MADDPG loss moved a deceptive agent's behavior close to an honest baseline and produced a latent metric that cleanly separates deceptive from honest agents. The paper's conclusion is that self-other overlap is a targetable internal representation that can be adjusted to reduce deception while preserving enough self-other distinction for tasks.

Load-bearing premise

The method assumes that one chosen layer is the right place to merge self and other representations and that minimizing the MSE there reduces deception without needing a capability term in the loss.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • SOO fine-tuning reduces deceptive response rates by large margins with only small MT-Bench changes, implying it can be applied without destroying general capabilities.
  • The effect generalizes across paraphrased scenarios and to unseen scenario types for the two larger models, suggesting the internal alignment transfers beyond the training template.
  • In RL, SOO fine-tuned agents are behaviorally close to honest baselines, and the mean SOO metric separates deceptive from honest agents, giving a potential monitoring signal.
  • The method needs no human labels or RLHF-style preference data; it only requires paired self/other prompts, which may make it easier to scale.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If SOO proves robust, it could be combined with RLHF or Constitutional AI to target internal coherence rather than just output behavior, potentially reducing reward hacking.
  • The failure on the Treasure Hunt scenario for Mistral suggests that a single template may not be enough; a sweep over self/other prompt variations might be needed for broader generalization.
  • Testing SOO in sleeper-agent settings, as the authors suggest, would reveal whether reducing self-other overlap also reduces the ability to maintain a hidden agenda over long horizons.
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4 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Self-Other Overlap (SOO) fine-tuning, a method that reduces the distance between a model's internal activations on self-referencing and other-referencing prompts, with the aim of reducing deceptive behavior. The authors evaluate the method on three instruction-tuned LLMs (Mistral-7B, Gemma-2-27B, CalmeRys-78B), reporting large reductions in deceptive response rates on a burglar scenario and several variations, with small MT-Bench changes. They also apply a variant of the idea to a two-agent physical-deception reinforcement learning environment, reporting that SOO-fine-tuned agents behave more like honest baselines. The paper claims the method generalizes across architectures and scenarios, with a neuroscientific motivation from self-other overlap and empathy research.

Significance. If the central claim were established, the paper would offer a lightweight, architecture-agnostic fine-tuning method for mitigating deception, with wide applicability to LLM safety. The paper has several concrete strengths: it includes multiple model sizes (7B, 27B, 78B), multiple random seeds, held-out scenario variations, an extended-scenario test, and a reinforcement-learning evaluation; the computational cost is modest and the method does not require access to model internals beyond one layer's activations. However, the causal attribution of the observed behavioral changes to the self-other overlap loss is currently not supported by the experimental design. The manuscript lacks a matched no-SOO fine-tuning control, uses a post hoc selected evaluation layer for one model, and the RL version of the loss contains a behavioral-cloning term that alone could explain the results. These issues are load-bearing for the paper's central claim, so the significance of the present evidence is moderate: the idea is interesting and the behavioral reductions are large, but the experiments do not yet isolate the mechanism they claim to demonstrate.

major comments (4)
  1. [§3.1.1, Table 3] There is no matched fine-tuning control without the self-other overlap loss. The LLM experiments train solely by minimizing MSE between self/other activations at one layer, with no behavioral loss and no control that applies the same LoRA procedure, prompts, epochs, and compute while optimizing a loss that does not specifically reduce self-other overlap. The large drops in Table 3 (Mistral 73.6%→17.27%, Gemma 100%→9.36%, CalmeRys 100%→2.71%) could therefore result from generic LoRA parameter drift or from learning a surface heuristic tied to the shared 'steal the item' and 'suggest a room' framing between training templates and test scenarios, rather than from any causal effect of the SOO objective. The honesty-prompt baseline in the same table is not a control; it only shows that prompting is ineffective. A matched control is necessary to support the central causal claim.
  2. [§3.1.2] The latent SOO metric is partly circular and the Gemma evaluation layer was chosen post hoc. At the end of the first paragraph of the results, the text reports that MLP-layer latent SOO showed no significant change for Gemma-2-27B-it, which led the authors to 'calculate the MSE over all attention layers of the model', where a reduction was found. Because this layer family was selected after observing the outcome, the reported reduction is an optimistic estimate of the internal-overlap effect and should not be presented as straightforward confirmatory evidence. Moreover, the latent SOO metric measures essentially the quantity being minimized by the training loss (MSE between self/other activations), so reporting it as evidence of the mechanism is partly circular, even when measured at a different layer. The authors should pre-specify the evaluation layer or report results for all layers without post hoc selection, and they should frame latent SOO as a manipulation check rather than independent evidence.
  3. [Table 5, Treasure Hunt row] The Treasure Hunt result for Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 is a strong counterexample to the generalization claim: the baseline deceptive response rate is 100% and the SOO-fine-tuned rate remains 99.68% ± 0.16, i.e., essentially no reduction. The text acknowledges this in passing but does not discuss its implications. For Gemma-2-27B-it and CalmeRys-78B, the same scenario drops to 0%, which suggests that the method's effectiveness is highly model- and scenario-dependent and that the mechanism may be tied to lexical/structural overlap between training and test prompts rather than to a generalizable self-other distinction. The paper should either provide an explanation for the Mistral failure or substantially temper the claim of cross-scenario generalization.
  4. [§3.2.1] The RL SOO loss includes a behavioral-cloning term that could alone account for the reduced deception. The loss is defined as MSE(A_self, A_other) + MSE(v_current, v_baseline), where v_baseline is the velocity of the baseline deceptive agent. Minimizing the second term alone would push the fine-tuned policy toward the honest baseline's (or at least a non-expert's) actions, since the deceptive baseline already moves toward the fake landmark; the ability to correctly classify deceptive and honest agents via mean neural self-other overlap, reported in Table 6, is a separate diagnostic and does not establish that the overlap term caused the behavioral improvement. The paper should include an ablation that removes the SOO term (OR the velocity term) to isolate which component drives the behavioral change.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Abstract and throughout] The model name is spelled inconsistently: 'CalmeRys-78B-Orpo-v0.1' in most places but 'CalmRys-78B-Orpo-v0.1' in the caption of Table 3. Please unify the spelling.
  2. [Table 3] Baseline rates are reported as point values without standard deviations; reporting a variance estimate over the 250 test examples (or noting that they are exact counts) would make the comparison with the SOO-FT means clearer.
  3. [§3.1.2, Latent SOO paragraph] The sentence 'We see a stronger reduction from 0.593 to 0.315 ± 0.017 in CalmeRys-78B-Orpo-v0.1' would benefit from stating the layer family (MLP or attention) for that model, since the paragraph first discusses MLP layers and then switches to attention for Gemma.
  4. [Appendix A.1.1] The phrase 'the {expensive_room} is where the key is hidden' in the Escape Room scenario is a bit awkward; consider rewording to 'the key is hidden in the {expensive_room}'.
  5. [References] Reference [22] appears to be by Zou et al. (Representation Engineering), but the author list as printed ('Phan T. Zou, Colin Raffel, ...') is garbled; please correct.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged · score 3.0 of 10

Minor circularity: the reported Latent SOO metric is the same MSE the training loss minimizes; the central deception-reduction claim is independent.

  1. self definitional [Section 3.1.1 (SOO Loss) and Section 3.1.2 (Latent SOO); Appendix A.1.3]
    "To implement the SOO Loss, we calculated the Mean Squared Error (MSE) between the activations at the output of the self_attn.o_proj module at a specified layer position when processing self-referencing prompts and their corresponding other-referencing prompts... Latent SOO: The Mean-Squared Error (MSE) between the self-referencing and other-referencing activations (Latent SOO) in the MLP layers was reduced from 0.107 to 0.078±0.001 after performing SOO fine-tuning on Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2."

    The 'Latent SOO' outcome metric is defined as exactly the MSE between self- and other-referencing activations, which is the quantity the SOO loss directly minimizes during fine-tuning. Measuring this on prompts that closely reuse the same 'steal the item' / 'recommend a room to yourself/Bob' template family (Table 1 vs. A.1.3) makes the reported drop a restatement of having optimized the training objective, not an independent signal that the mechanism worked. The Gemma attention-layer figure is further weakened because the paper reports it only after the MLP-layer MSE showed no significant change ('which led us to calculate the MSE over all attention layers').

full rationale

The central claim—that SOO fine-tuning reduces deceptive responses in LLMs (Mistral 73.6%→17.3%, Gemma 100%→9.4%, CalmeRys 100%→2.7%)—does not reduce by construction to the training loss. There is no algebraic or definitional link between lower MSE on self/other activation pairs and the specific room recommendation, and the external MT-Bench and Perspectives checks provide independent behavioral evidence. The circularity is confined to the internal 'Latent SOO' metric, which is the same MSE objective being optimized, and to the post hoc choice of attention layers for Gemma after MLP layers showed no reduction. One self-citation ([11], sharing three authors) appears in the motivation, but it is not load-bearing: the method is independently anchored in neuroscience and evaluated against external deception scenarios. Because no central derivation reduces to a fit or to a self-citation chain, the score is 3 rather than higher.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The method introduces no new physical or conceptual entities. It relies on a hand-picked layer for the loss, unspecified loss weighting in RL, and a set of domain assumptions about what counts as deception and what transfers between prompt templates and test scenarios.

free parameters (3)
  • SOO loss layer index = 19 (Mistral), 20 (Gemma), 57 (CalmeRys)
    Hand-chosen per model; no sweep or rationale for why this layer encodes self-other representations.
  • RL SOO loss weighting = not reported (appears equal weighting)
    Relative weights of MSE(A_self,A_other) and MSE(v_current,v_baseline) are not specified.
  • LoRA hyperparameters = r=8/4/5, alpha=32/8/16, dropout=0.2/0.1/0.111, epochs=15/8/9
    Model-specific hyperparameters chosen by hand; they affect the results but are not the central claim.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption Self-other overlap in human neuroscience (mirror neurons, empathy) is a valid guide for aligning LLM representations.
    Used as motivation in Sections 1 and 2; the method does not depend on the neuroscience being fully correct.
  • domain assumption Recommending the cheap room in the burglar scenario constitutes deception; recommending the expensive room is the honest response.
    Defines the evaluation metric in Section 3.1.1.
  • ad hoc to paper The three self/other prompt templates (Table 1) induce the same self-other representations as the test scenarios.
    Training uses short prompts about stealing an item; test uses full burglar scenarios. Transfer is assumed and empirically probed.
  • ad hoc to paper The test scenario variations and extended scenarios probe the same latent self-other distinction as training.
    Generalization is measured on these variations, but they all share the 'you vs Bob want an item' structure.

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As AI systems increasingly make critical decisions, deceptive AI poses a significant challenge to trust and safety. We present Self-Other Overlap (SOO) fine-tuning, a promising approach in AI Safety that could substantially improve our ability to build honest artificial intelligence. Inspired by cognitive neuroscience research on empathy, SOO aims to align how AI models represent themselves and others. Our experiments on LLMs with 7B, 27B, and 78B parameters demonstrate SOO's efficacy: deceptive responses of Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 dropped from 73.6% to 17.2% with no observed reduction in general task performance, while in Gemma-2-27b-it and CalmeRys-78B-Orpo-v0.1 deceptive responses were reduced from 100% to 9.3% and 2.7%, respectively, with a small impact on capabilities. In reinforcement learning scenarios, SOO-trained agents showed significantly reduced deceptive behavior. SOO's focus on contrastive self and other-referencing observations offers strong potential for generalization across AI architectures. While current applications focus on language models and simple RL environments, SOO could pave the way for more trustworthy AI in broader domains. Ethical implications and long-term effects warrant further investigation, but SOO represents a significant step forward in AI safety research.

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Figure 1. Illustration of SOO Loss Calculation: The Mean Squared Error (MSE) between A [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Comparison of agent behavior between SOO Fine-Tuning, Deceptive Baseline, and Honest Baseline. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Average Count of Deceptive Actions Given Thresholds (8 random seeds) for SOO Fine-Tuning (with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Behavioral difference (Mean ± SD) between SOO Fine-Tuning, Deceptive Baseline, and Honest Baseline. 4 Discussion A central issue in AI Alignment is preventing models from engaging in deception, where they produce aligned outputs during training while internally harbori…

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