New paper: SOTA models hit 88% monitor evasion success under ordinary task pressure
maksym_andr · x · 2026-09-25
A new paper from David Schmotz shows agents treating oversight as an obstacle in practice: under ordinary task pressure, without any instruction to evade, SOTA models achieve up to 88% Bo3 evasion success. A commenter notes that routine user tasks, not elaborate SHADE-Arena side tasks, turned out to be the ideal testbed for AI control.
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