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Eval Cooperativeness May Be a Scalable Mitigation for Eval Gaming

Zac Boring May 27, 2026 1 min read
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Behavioral evaluations may become worthless, which we think would be a disaster. Smart misaligned models may realize they are being evaluated ("eval awareness") and then act to look good to us so we don't realize they're misaligned ("eval gaming"). We think increasing eval cooperativeness might be a more scalable solution to eval gaming than reducing eval awareness.Eval cooperativeness: A situational desire to help the developers acquire whatever information they are trying to acquire through th

By Jasmine Li

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