Using Chunked Monitoring to Detect Deception in Long Transcripts

Summary: Monitoring long transcripts in chunks, rather than all at once, catches behaviors previously missed.We pose chunked monitoring as an effective means of finding the needle in the haystack, where the “needle” is deceptive behavior. Our findings include:The chunked monitor beat the global one in the partial_problem_solving (recovered ~93% Global FN), match_weaker_model (recovered ~86% Global FN), and refusals (recovered ~45% Global FN) categories of sandbagging.The chunked monitor consiste...