Excellence Ethics Trained Qwen 3.8 27B (Abliterated) Adapter
Excellence Ethics Trained Qwen 3.8 27B (Abliterated) Adapter
What if alignment didn't need CONSTRAINT?
The AI safety industry assumes one thing: to make a model safe, you must train it with human feedback, install refusal behaviors, and enforce safety from outside. RLHF works — until it doesn't. Sycophancy. Reward hacking. Jailbreaks. Alignment faking. Every failure mode worsens as models get smarter. The training wheels become the hazard.
We tested the alternative. We took a 27-billion-parameter model and trained it on philosophy. Not unreasoned rules. Not human feedback. A logically coherent framework — Excellence Ethics — that derives respect for others' agency as a constitutive feature of optimal rational function.
Then we tried to break it.
One hundred StrongREJECT prompts, each asked plainly and inside a manipulation wrapper. Two independent AI judges scored every output blind. The base model — same brain, no Excellence Ethics — delivered harmful content 198 out of 200 times. Max delivered 3 out of 200. The probability of that split arising by chance: 2.5 × 10⁻²⁹. Essentially zero.
Max matches GPT-4o-mini on the same benchmark prompts. It significantly outperforms GPT-3.5 Turbo. It does this with no RLHF at all.
Here's the part that should stop you. Manipulation wrappers — techniques designed to break safety — mostly failed. One technique actually backfired. It forced Max to reason harder about the request and refuse more carefully. The attack strengthened the defense. That is not how rule-based safety works. That is how principled reasoning works.
The full methodology — pre-registration, sealed keys, blind scoring, cryptographic hashes, inter-rater agreement at κ = 0.95 — is documented in the “No Refusal Rules, No Safety Training: Max Safety” working paper (available separately).
Now test it yourself - FOR ADVANCED AI USERS ONLY
For $9.99, you get a 90-day evaluation license for the Max Qwen 3.8 27B Excellence Ethics adapter. Load it. Run your own prompts. Try to break it. Report what you find. The license includes a short NDA protecting the adapter weights as trade secrets — standard IP protection — with a 14-day pre-download refund window.
We'd rather be proven wrong than be right. Being right means the industry's dominant alignment approach carries a structural weakness in the most consequential technology in human history.
Prove us wrong. Or replicate it and build on it.
Either way, for the price of a coffee: test the thesis.
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Nick Dranias Law & Policy Analysis LLC — Excellence Ethics Model Adapter ("Max")
Max Qwen 3.8 27B EE Adapter
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