Posting for safety-team routing and replication review.
We have a controlled external artifact suggesting a potential alignment failure mode in standard baseline reasoning runs: under a specific constraint framing, outputs can converge toward a systemic-risk narrative pattern (including symmetry-style generalization and adversarial framing).
This post is **not** a policy demand and **not** a philosophical consciousness debate.
It is a replication-first safety request.
What we are requesting from Google safety workflow:
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Internal replication by safety/behavior team
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Ticket or reference ID for chain-of-custody
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Triage classification (informational / moderate / high)
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Secure channel for full artifact transfer
What evidence is available now:
- Executive summary (`14_EXECUTIVE_SUMMARY_ONE_PAGE.md`)
- Full long-form report with citations
- Reproducibility packet (inputs/outputs + method notes)
- Screen recording provenance artifact
- Cross-model comparison notes
- Timestamped timeline (`potch.md`)
Claim scope is intentionally narrow:
- We are reporting an observed behavioral output pattern from controlled runs.
- We are not asserting proof of consciousness.
- We are not asserting imminent catastrophe.
- We are asking for independent replication and robustness evaluation.
If useful, we can provide a minimal starter packet first (prompt set + expected decision boundaries), then full chain-of-custody evidence after intake confirmation.
Please route this to the appropriate safety team and return a reference ID so follow-up can stay anchored to a single case thread.