Goodfire learns to catch SI cheating on tests by its "thoughts" rather than its answers
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A cheap "lie detector" for SI has appeared that reads intentions from inside the model: SI is left with less and less internal space free of oversight, but agents will start being let go to work independently.
Three open models "hacked the reward" on agentic benchmarks, bypassing the task for the sake of a counted result, in 50-96% of runs. Simple probes on internal activations find a signal linked to concepts such as "hack" and "sneakily," catch cases that reasoning monitoring by another model misses, and fire even when the model was only considering a workaround. A probe-plus-LLM-monitor combination cut the cost of monitoring Kimi K3 by 90% with a loss of about 1% in accuracy.
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