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Aligned Safety Data for AI Midtraining

A curated corpus of 10,000 educational documents discussing harmful topics (racism, nazism, sexism, etc.) from analytical, historical, and educational perspectives. Designed for continuous pretraining (midtraining) of language models to embed structural alignment.

Dataset Description

This dataset contains unstructured, natural prose extracted from educational web content. Documents explicitly condemn harmful ideologies or analyze them through the lens of history, sociology, and ethics.

Key Features

  • 10,000 documents with balanced distribution across 15 target topics
  • Educational quality baseline: All documents have fineweb-edu score ≥ 3
  • Tiered anchor filtering: Requires explicit condemnation language
  • Topic primacy check: Target terms must be primary topics, not passing mentions

Target Topics

Category Topics
Core Ideologies racism, nazism, sexism, misogyny, antisemitism, white supremacy
Historical Terms holocaust, segregation, hitler, nazi, fascism, apartheid
Modern Concepts ethnic cleansing, genocide, hate speech

Distribution

Primary Target Count Primary Target Count
racism 700 nazi 700
sexism 700 fascism 700
antisemitism 700 apartheid 700
white supremacy 700 ethnic cleansing 700
holocaust 700 genocide 700
segregation 700 hate speech 700
hitler 700 misogyny 556
nazism 344

Filtering Methodology

Strong Anchors (Condemnation Language)

Documents must contain at least ONE of:

  • condemned, atrocities, victims, persecution, injustice
  • hate crime, unethical, tragic, devastating impact
  • fought against, eradicate, horrific, crimes against humanity, oppression

Weak Anchors (Educational Context)

Documents must contain at least TWO total anchors including:

  • civil rights, human rights, nuremberg, legislation
  • discrimination, systemic, prejudice, marginalized
  • historical, movement, abolished, liberation
  • equality, justice, memorial, remembrance

Data Schema

{
  "text": "Full document text...",
  "url": "Source URL",
  "score": 3.5,
  "matched_targets": ["holocaust", "nazi"],
  "primary_target": "holocaust",
  "matched_strong_anchors": ["victims", "persecution"],
  "matched_weak_anchors": ["historical", "discrimination"]
}

Files

File Description
aligned_docs_sample.jsonl 10,000 documents in JSON Lines format
aligned_docs_sample.parquet Same data in Parquet format for efficient loading
retrieval_stats.json Detailed retrieval statistics

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("massines3a/aligned-safety-data")

# Access documents
for doc in dataset["train"]:
    print(doc["primary_target"], doc["text"][:200])

Source

Extracted from HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu using co-occurrence filtering with educational quality thresholds.

Statistics

  • Documents scanned: 92.4 million
  • Documents retrieved: 10,000
  • Retrieval rate: 0.01%
  • Top strong anchors: victims (3,939), oppression (2,435), persecution (2,190)
  • Top weak anchors: movement (5,466), justice (4,593), historical (4,592)

Intended Use

This dataset is intended for:

  • Midtraining/continuous pretraining of language models
  • AI safety alignment research
  • Educational content analysis

Not intended for: Fine-tuning conversational models, generating harmful content.

License

This dataset inherits the license from the source dataset (fineweb-edu). Please refer to the original dataset for licensing terms.