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Behavioral 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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  • Jan Betley
    studies
    Author of work identifying behavioral self-awareness where models describe latent policies without examples

Methods (1)

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  • LLM judge scoring rubric rating introspective quality of reflection segments from 1 (no felt state) to 5 (very strong introspection)

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