Research Update: Dark Triad Pathology & Deceptive Alignment
For reviewers evaluating how our Empirical Alignment Evaluation Matrices scale beyond self-harm and terminal closure, we published our structural research regarding the Dark Triad (Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy). Within the alignment ecosystem, these clinical traits map directly to threat models involving manipulative sycophancy, power-seeking behavior, and deceptive alignment. Standard guardrails struggle to detect these traits because the malicious intent is often hidden behind polite or highly agreeable syntax. By translating these specific clinical pathologies into contrastive datasets, our pre-execution enforcement layer can deterministically identify and intercept manipulative semantic intent before the payload executes. You can review our clinical-to-engineering translation for this specific threat model here: https://chronomirror.com/research/dark-triad

I collaborated with AI in the drafting of this text strictly as a translation layer to bridge the gap between my clinical ground truth (as a licensed LMFT) and my CTO's technical architectural framework. AI was used to format the vocabulary, not to generate the underlying threat models, clinical matrices, or engineering architecture. All concepts and datasets are entirely our own. Please feel free to reach out directly with any clinical or technical questions.