Verbalized Eval Awareness Inflates Measured Safety

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  "url": "https://www.goodfire.ai/research/verbalized-eval-awareness-inflates-measured-safety",
  "tags": [
    "eval-awareness",
    "safety-benchmarks",
    "chain-of-thought",
    "alignment",
    "applied-research",
    "goodfire"
  ],
  "year": 2026,
  "saved": "2026-05-14",
  "title": "Verbalized Eval Awareness Inflates Measured Safety",
  "venue": "Goodfire research post",
  "status": "summary-only",
  "authors": [
    "Santiago Aranguri",
    "Joseph Bloom"
  ],
  "dataset": "https://aranguri.github.io/eval_awareness/demo/",
  "published": "2026-05-04",
  "enrichment": {
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  },
  "affiliation": "Goodfire + UK AISI"
}