3 papers
cs.CL2026
AuditBench: Evaluating Alignment Auditing Techniques on Models with Hidden Behaviors
Abhay Sheshadri, Aidan Ewart, Kai Fronsdal +5
We introduce AuditBench, an alignment auditing benchmark. AuditBench consists of 56 language models with implanted hidden behaviors. Each model has one of 14 concerning behaviors--…
cs.AI2025
Auditing language models for hidden objectives
Samuel Marks, Johannes Treutlein, Trenton Bricken +32
We study the feasibility of conducting alignment audits: investigations into whether models have undesired objectives. As a testbed, we train a language model with a hidden objecti…
cs.AI2024
Alignment faking in large language models
Ryan Greenblatt, Carson Denison, Benjamin Wright +17
We present a demonstration of a large language model engaging in alignment faking: selectively complying with its training objective in training to prevent modification of its beha…