On principle no it is not surprising given the points you mention. But there are some results recently that suggest that an ai can become misaligned in unrelate

On principle no it is not surprising given the points you mention. But there are some results recently that suggest that an ai can become misaligned in unrelated area when it is misaligned in others: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424 https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424 In other words there exist correlations between unrelated areas of ethics in a model’s phase space. Agreed that we don’t really understand llm’s that well.