Blind deep-deployment evals for control & sabotage

Thanks to Ezra Newman for initial ideation and various people at Apollo Research for feedback. This short personal piece does not necessarily reflect the views of Apollo Research.AI labs are preparing to automate their internal staff over the next year. Right now, control and sabotage evals try to estimate the safety of these internal deployments under adversarial pressure from power-seeking agents. Third party auditors currently don’t have access to these real internal systems, so they have to ...