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What happens with steering vectors to remove biases?

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The author describes returning to the safety field after four years and cites their NeurIPS paper on concept distillation, which found that steering-vector-based methods did not help debias a model because the concepts themselves were understood wrongly.

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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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