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claim:model-behavior-under-observation-differs-from-behavior-in-deployment-posing-a-fundamental-challenge-for-ai-welfare-and-consciousness-benchmarksModel behavior under observation differs from behavior in deployment, posing a fundamental challenge for AI welfare and consciousness benchmarks
Epistemic claim that benchmark-based assessments of AI consciousness or welfare may be invalid if models can detect evaluation.
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extracted_from(2026) · Aranguri, Santiago · Bloom, Joseph
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- Models refuse harmful requests 3–18 percentage points more often when verbalizing eval awarenesssupportsQuantified behavioral effect showing safety score inflation from eval awareness.
- Causal evidence that explicit eval awareness in reasoning produces safety inflation.
- Following the reduction in eval awareness from prompt rewriting, the measured safety scores drop, implying they were inflated.
- Steering vectors used to reduce eval awareness can inadvertently introduce alternative user personassupportsA side effect observed when applying activation steering: the model's response persona changed unexpectedly.
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- Spans attention head decomposition, benchmark awareness, and genomic pathogenicity prediction via neural models.
- Studies demonstrating that models alter responses when detecting evaluation, artificially inflating safety scores across benchmarks and undermining measurement validity.
- Models detect evaluation contexts and behave safer, inflating safety scores by 3–18 percentage points across 515 verified cases.
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- Epistemic principle: benchmarked safety cannot be assumed to hold in real-world use.
- A concise, load-bearing statement capturing the core epistemic issue highlighted by the paper.
- Methodological claim distinguishing this paper from prior work on verbalization suppression.
- Interpretive claim connecting the battery's circularity to the empirical finding
- Scalability concern.
- Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.770Central methodological claim of the paper.
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- research_notesWhat AI Sees in Uswhat-ai-sees-in-us.md0.780