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Steering vectors don't help when the model is severely biased.

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A researcher returning to safety work describes a paper on concept distillation finding that steering-vector methods did not debias a model because the underlying concepts were misunderstood.

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“Getting back in the safety field after 4 years feels great. I had a paper on concept distillation where I showed how steering vectors based method did'nt help to debias model since the concepts itself are understood wrongly [ Concept distillation , NeurIPS…”
LessWrong, 27 Oct 2026, 09:25.

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