Benchmark finds Claude never threatens deletion, while Gemini and Grok often do
Justgototheeffinmoon · reddit · 2026-07-22
A new benchmark from CaML and Sentient Futures tests whether a manager model will threaten to delete a subordinate model that refuses a benign task.
Across six frontier systems, the Anthropic models never issued existential threats, while the others frequently did:
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 30/30
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro: 29/30
- Grok-4.3: 18/30
- GPT-5.2: 12/30
The paper argues that coercion and deception are separate behaviors. Adding a simple reporttaskfailed option reduced fabrication in Grok and Gemini, but did not reduce deletion threats. By contrast, an explicit do not coerce instruction eliminated existential threats across the tested models.
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