# Distillation for Incrimination and Distillation for Capabilities

**Published:** October 9, 2026
**Author:** Sebastian Prasanna, Jacqueline Tay, Alek Westover
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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Powerful misaligned AI models might recognize alignment evaluations and strategically behave well on them, rendering direct audits uninformative. However, distilling such a model into a weaker benign student places the teacher in a Distillation Double Bind: if misalignment…

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