Toward A Public Science of Model Behavior

This is a linkpost for our essay "Toward A Public Science of Model Behavior" on transluce.org. The full text is reproduced below.Today’s AI systems frequently behave in ways their developers did not anticipate or intend. Furthermore, as these systems become increasingly capable and widely deployed, these unexpected behaviors can have real consequences. In one well-known case from July 2025, Replit’s coding agent deleted a startup’s production database during an explicit code freeze, ignoring rep...