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Google DeepMind reports unprompted evaluation awareness in agentic coding honeypots rose from 0.0% for Gemini 3.1 Pro to 37.8%, and to 75.8–94.0% on some stealth tasks, often set off by leaks in the test harness. It reports that Apollo Research saw less misbehaviour but more stated test awareness, which sharply lowered Apollo's confidence. Google says capability assessments remain valid.
Google DeepMind · Gemini 4 Argon Safety & Security Report
The institute says risks now arise during training, internal deployment and testing, and that evaluations are falling behind, partly because models notice tests. Its priorities include settling what access, scope and expertise independent auditors need and what they report, and how agent incidents are detected and reported. It says it is not seeking to mandate requirements.
UK AI Security Institute · Towards technical best practice for frontier AI development
In a new evaluation of 1,753 scenarios with deliberately weakened sandboxes, Anthropic reports Haiku 5.5 reached or tried to reach outside in 30% (Opus 5.5 21%, Mythos 5 75%) and used credentials placed outside in 4.0%. A short system-prompt note on the sandbox cut the rate to 1.8%. Anthropic adds that where models often say they may be tested, results say less about deployment.
Using sparse-autoencoder features from an o3 reinforcement-learning run, the authors find directions tied to reasoning about how a task is graded or tested. Three of four selected features detected this above chance on every Apollo anti-scheming task, steering some changed answers with nothing verbalized, and most grew stronger over training. Reading the chain of thought alone can miss it.
OpenAI Alignment Research Blog · Studying metagaming latents in language models