AI Sandbagging (w/ Inspect)
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A new project replicating research on AI sandbagging has tested whether frontier models can strategically underperform on evaluations to hide their true capabilities. Using the Inspect framework developed by the UK AI Safety Institute, the researcher tested models including Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.4 Mini. As LessWrong reports, the results showed varying levels of resistance to sandbagging, with GPT-5.4 Mini showing more resistance to underperforming on cybersecurity questions compared to GPT-4 Turbo. The study specifically looked at hazardous knowledge in biology, chemistry, and cybersecurity to see if models would intentionally give wrong answers when prompted to do so.
Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sdiZmNKSXceeYbXB8/ai-sand...
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