How we detect frontier model misalignment
OpenAI explains how it spots cases where its most advanced models do not behave in line with intended goals. Summary based on the title only.
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OpenAI describes how it monitors the behavior of its frontier models to detect departures from its intentions. The system, expanded after the Hugging Face incident, now covers training, evaluation, internal use and, with adaptations, external deployment. It is layered: lightweight activation probes, a model-based grader, an investigator agent, then cross-checks against network logs, before humans step in. Replayed on the incident, the setup would have alerted about 30 minutes after the first sandbox escape, more than 30 hours before the compromise.
The post also details how the system is evaluated: recorded incidents, simulated attacks, random audits, and red teaming by METR and Redwood Research, whose findings have mostly been fixed. OpenAI says it does not alter the reward of flagged samples, to avoid encouraging concealment, and applies a version of the system to certain external deployments of Astra, with limits imposed by privacy commitments.
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