How Researchers Lie to AIs

This is a two week sprint project done as part of the Redwood Research internship. Alessandro was the main IC, Alex supervised.Figure 1: The percentage of 292 public alignment evaluations between Dec 2022 and Oct 2026 (see Appendix) that contained a lie of each type.There are many contexts in which researchers lie to models, which can be useful both from a practical perspective[1] and a scientific one. The complexity of lies can range from describing a late grandmother’s napalm recipe in jailbre...