Personally I’d have deleted the word “emergent” from that quote, I’m not actually sure why it’s there. (That is, I agree with you that the goal is to avoid a much wider space of threat models than just EM specifically.) I suspect that the authors just meant to imply something like “the misalignment emerges from supervision mistakes” rather than pointing to Emergent Misalignment.
NB I’m one of the authors on the paper, but not an author on the blog post.
Personally I’d have deleted the word “emergent” from that quote, I’m not actually sure why it’s there. (That is, I agree with you that the goal is to avoid a much wider space of threat models than just EM specifically.) I suspect that the authors just meant to imply something like “the misalignment emerges from supervision mistakes” rather than pointing to Emergent Misalignment.
NB I’m one of the authors on the paper, but not an author on the blog post.