We measured how AI capabilities INTERACT as models scale. Below 3.5B, reasoning and truthfulness fight. Above it, they cooperate. The transition is engineerable. (2 papers + interactive dashboard + 7 falsifiable predictions)
THE FINDING (Paper 1: "Lying Is Just a Phase") Below a critical scale (~3.5B for Pythia), reasoning and truthfulness ANTICORRELATE: r = -0.989. Train the model to reason better, and it gets less truthful. This is the alignment tax. Abo…