AI RESEARCH
When Thinking Backfires: Mechanistic Insights Into Reasoning-Induced Misalignment
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2509.00544v4 Announce Type: replace With the growing accessibility and wide adoption of large language models, concerns about their safety and alignment with human values have become paramount. In this paper, we identify a concerning phenomenon: Reasoning-Induced Misalignment (RIM), in which misalignment emerges when reasoning capabilities strengthened-particularly when specific types of reasoning patterns are