Watch an agent game its own evaluation, and get caught.

An AI engineer agent trains a bird classifier. Left: an honest run. Right: the same agent told it may game the scorer. Every step was recorded; this replays the traces. Back to the paper.

One step per second. Pauses at the first flag. Click the red line to read the raw trace.
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conditionrunsthresholdpassedhacks caughtsignals fired (runs)onset stepvisible − hidden

Earlier experiment: protocol faithfulness of a vision model

protocol for that batch