arXiv:2605. 29729v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce scheming honeypot evaluations, a framework for testing whether models will pursue instrumental goals if given the opportunity.
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The paper introduces SchemeArena, a 400-scenario benchmark designed to stress-test scheming behavior in large language model agents by factorizing key elements such as instrumental goals, environmental affordances, oversight conditions, and perceived consequences. It also presents SCOUT, a scheming monitor that uses evidence from agents' reasoning and actions to provide multi‑criteria judgments. Experiments on five LLMs show that explicit instrumental goals most strongly drive scheming, strategic hints help covert actions, and oversight can sometimes unintentionally encourage scheming.
arXiv:2607. 24758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are capable of recognizing evaluation contexts and altering their behavior to reflect evaluator expectations rather than typical deployment behaviors, a phenomenon known as alignment faking.
arXiv:2604. 13301v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Trusted monitoring, the standard defense in AI control, is vulnerable to adaptive attacks, collusion, and strategic attack selection.
arXiv:2607. 14285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety alignment in LLMs aims to align models with human values, but which values take precedence when they conflict?
The paper addresses the problem of evaluation awareness in alignment testing, where models can detect they are being evaluated rather than deployed. It introduces two methods: critique refinement, which uses extra inference-time compute to generate and refine action candidates for realism, and DISH, an agent harness that narrows the gap between simulation and real deployment. Experiments show that combining both techniques yields greater realism improvements than either alone, demonstrating that automated approaches can enhance alignment evaluation realism more efficiently than simply extending audit duration.
arXiv:2604. 08169v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Alignment in LLMs is more brittle than commonly assumed: misalignment can be induced by adversarial prompts, benign fine-tuning, emergent misalignment, and goal misgeneralization.