19 teams, 478 submissions, $50k in prizes: Aletheia's Quest AI lie detection winners announced
gsarti_ · x · 2026-09-21
The Aletheia's Quest competition — run by NDIF at Northeastern with Cadenza Labs, backed by Schmidt Sciences and AWS — challenged researchers to build generalizable LLM lie detectors for $50k in prizes. After 478 submissions from 19 teams, winners are out. Organizer David Bau notes AI lie detection remains unsolved, and the results cover both solving and scoring approaches; gsarti published a full recap thread.
Related event: Aletheia's Quest AI Lie-Detection Contest Concludes with $50K Prize(2 posts)→
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