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concept:behavioral-self-awarenessBehavioral Self-Awareness
Measurable capacity of frontier LLMs to detect and report their own internal states, used as a downstream measure in Experiment 4
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Thinkers (2)
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- Jack Lindseystudies
- Jan BetleystudiesAuthor of work identifying behavioral self-awareness where models describe latent policies without examples
Methods (1)
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- Self-Awareness Scoring Rubric (1-5)implementsLLM judge scoring rubric rating introspective quality of reflection segments from 1 (no felt state) to 5 (very strong introspection)
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