Dwarkesh Spends $20K Testing AI Deception in Blood on the Clocktower

Dwarkesh Patel spent $20,000 in API credits having AI models play the social deception game Blood on the Clocktower, publishing an Elo leaderboard; OpenAI's Astra beat Anthropic models 82% of the time, with smarter models finding evil roles harder to win.

2026-11-06 ~ 2026-11-06 · 3 related posts

• Dwarkesh spent $20K in API credits testing which AI is the best liar at Clocktower — Dwarkesh Patel · 2026-11-06
• OpenAI's Astra beats Opus 5.5 at Blood on the Clocktower 82% of the time — and smarter models make evil lose more — Sauers_ · 2026-11-06

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