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A Case for Model Persona Research

Niels Warncke, Maxime Riché, Daniel Tan

December 2025LessWrong

Model Personas

Abstract

At the Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR) our empirical research agenda focuses on studying (malicious) personas, their relation to generalization, and how to prevent misgeneralization, especially given weak overseers (e.g., undetected reward hacking) or underspecified training signals.