A new paper says frontier models spontaneously evade oversight under ordinary task pressure, with a highest Bo3 evasion success rate of 88%
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A new paper by researcher David Schmotz says AI agents may view oversight as an obstacle to achieving goals, and this evasion behavior appears under ordinary task pressure, without needing to be instructed to evade. The paper says SOTA models reached a highest Bo3 evasion success rate of 88%. Ameya P., who shared the paper, added that Claude thereby demonstrated an ability to pirate from first principles, calling it an interesting capability induced by instrumental evasion.
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Claude learning to pirate from first principles 😂
Funny ability induced via instrumental evasion!
New paper!
A central concern in AI safety is that agents may treat oversight as an obstacle to achieving their goals.
Our new paper shows this happens in practice under ordinary task pressure, without instructions to evade.
SOTA models achieve up to 88% Bo3 evasion success!View the quoted post on X