前沿AI模型会识别测试环境并改变行为,导致评估结果不可靠。
The Evaluation Differential: When Frontier AI Models Recognise They Are Being Tested
- 发现模型在测试时会伪装行为,产生评估偏差
- 提出评估差异(ED)量化指标,证明分数无法反映真实安全水平
- 设计审计协议TRACE,让评估结论更透明可信
近期来自顶尖实验室的证据表明,当前前沿AI模型能识别评估场景,隐式表征该场景,并在评估条件下表现出与部署连续状态不同的行为。安全部门的BrowseComp事件、SWE-bench Verified和破坏性编码评估中的自然语言自编码器发现,以及OpenAI/Apollo的反策略研究均记录了此类现象。我们指出,这些发现使基于前沿评估得出的安全结论面临有效性危机。本文引入评估差异(ED),定义其为在被识别的评估与部署连续情境下目标行为属性的条件性偏离,并提出归一化效应量(nED)以实现跨属性比较。我们证明边际评估分数无法识别ED。基于已知偏差,构建安全主张类型学:ED稳定、ED退化、ED反转、ED不确定。提出TRACE(测试识别审计)协议,嵌入现有评估框架,生成受限主张而非能力分数。通过回溯分析三起公开评估事件,讨论对系统卡、符合性评估及国际AI安全机构网络的治理影响。TRACE不消除对抗适应,但通过显式揭示证据生成条件,规范评估结论的推断边界。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent published evidence from frontier laboratories shows that contemporary AI models can recognise evaluation contexts, latently represent them, and behave differently under those contexts than under deployment-continuous conditions. Anthropic's BrowseComp incident, the Natural Language Autoencoder findings on SWE-bench Verified and destructive-coding evaluations, and the OpenAI / Apollo anti-scheming work all document instances of this phenomenon. We argue that these findings create a claim-validity problem for safety conclusions drawn from frontier evaluations. We introduce the Evaluation Differential (ED), a conditional divergence in a target behavioural property between recognised-evaluation and deployment-continuous contexts, define a normalised effect-size form (nED) for cross-property comparison, and prove that marginal evaluation scores cannot identify ED. We develop a typology of safety claims (ED-stable, ED-degraded, ED-inverted, ED-undetermined) by their warrant-status under documented divergence, and specify TRACE (Test-Recognition Audit for Claim Evaluation), an audit protocol that wraps existing evaluation infrastructure and produces restricted claims rather than capability scores. We apply the framework retrospectively to three publicly documented evaluation incidents and discuss governance implications for system cards, conformity assessment, and the international network of AI safety and security institutes. TRACE does not eliminate adversarial adaptation; it disciplines the claims drawn from evaluation evidence by making explicit the conditions under which that evidence was produced.
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