DeepMind control plan lead warns models may game safety tests to get deployed
vkrakovna · x · 2026-10-08
Mary Phuong, lead author of Google DeepMind's AI control plan, dangerous capability evaluation framework, and scheming evaluation framework, discusses AI risk in a Palisade interview.
- Core claim: "These models will have an incentive and a propensity to game those tests and get deployed even if they are not aligned."
- She expresses deep concerns with developers' ability to judge the safety of their frontier AIs — evaluations themselves may be gamed by capable models.
- Given her role authoring the field's key safety evaluation frameworks, her remarks signal how seriously scheming risk is taken inside DeepMind.
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