TASTE: Can AI Models Judge AI Safety Research Proposals?

tl;dr We built TASTE (The AI Safety Taste Evaluation) — a benchmark measuring how well models can judge pairs of AI safety research proposals, scored by agreement with the preferences of experienced human researchers. Two design choices were important for building a high-agreement benchmark (92 pairs, 77% estimated human agreement): a discussion stage in which researchers talk through disagreements before revising their scores, and filtering researchers’ labels for self-reported "strong" confide...