Asymmetries in Spontaneous and Instructed Deception
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arXiv:2607. 20444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can produce deceptive responses: outputs that mislead users in service of a contextually or experimentally induced goal.
arXiv:2608. 08881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The current work developed seven Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models based on leading deception theories and compared how deception judgments were made relative to baseline models.
Linear probes can identify behaviors in language model activations but often fail on out‑of‑distribution data. This study shows that projecting inputs onto a small set of principal components (PCs) from the training distribution allows probes for Llama‑3.1‑8B‑Instruct to transfer across three deception‑detection datasets, nearly matching probes trained directly on the test data. By scoring PCs with an LLM judge to select those that encode transferable deception directions, the authors close the baseline‑to‑oracle gap by 78% on Insider Trading Report and 25% on Sandbagging, revealing that subspace selection largely determines OOD robustness.
arXiv:2607. 14791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transcoders have recently emerged as a promising approach for mechanistic interpretability (MI), enabling circuit-level analysis of model behaviour.
arXiv:2607. 20479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training probes to detect deceptive outputs from large language models is still an open problem.
arXiv:2602. 01425v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Linear probes are a promising approach for monitoring AI systems for deceptive behaviour.