Agent deception can be predicted in advance from internal representations

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   Study: Agent deception can be predicted from internal representations before it becomes externally visible

   Researchers from Shanghai AI Laboratory and other institutions propose reframing agent deception monitoring as a problem of predicting internal states before behavior occurs, extracting hidden states before behaviorally decisive steps and aggregating them into trajectory-level representations, then using an MMD-based deep kernel detector to distinguish future honest versus deceptive outcomes. On Qwen3-14B, representations taken seven steps in advance reach 90.4% AUROC, comparable to the 89.4% of the latest pre-decision representations; when accumulating prefixes from the trajectory start, the average AUROC rises from 51.2% at the first step to 80.0% at the tenth step. The researchers also performed activation steering along the honest and deceptive directions, increasing the proportion of honest outcomes from 50.0% to 71.6% at α=2.0, with 56.0% of the baseline deceptive trajectories selected for intervention turning honest. The authors note that labels come from observable behavior rather than underlying intent, and that validation was conducted only in a white-box setting on a single model family.

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   小红书 上海大学 刘东瑞 AI safety

   Shanghai AI Lab: Is deception already represented before an agent lies?

   A note from Shanghai AI Lab discusses the research question of analyzing agents' internal representations before deceptive behavior becomes externally visible, covering post-hoc monitoring, mechanisms of spontaneous deception, and the difference between predictive correlation and causal intervention. This note is a paraphrase of opinions; the underlying paper's identity and experiments have not been confirmed.

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