ChinaTalk Launches $25k Contest to Explore AI Evals in National Security Decisions
xeophon · x · 2026-08-12
As senior leadership worldwide begins integrating AI models into broad strategic and national security decisions, model evaluation for these high-stakes scenarios severely lags behind routine tasks like coding.
To address this blind spot, ChinaTalk has launched an evals and essay contest with a $25,000 prize pool. The initiative aims to foster research into how models perform when supporting consequential national decisions, such as signing treaties or military actions. The accompanying discussion features experts exploring the eval-building limits of frontier labs and how to test extreme model behaviors in strategic wargaming, such as initiating nuclear wars in Civilization V.
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