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Strategic underperformance on model evaluations

"GPAI developers often run evaluations ofual-use capabilities to decide whether it is safe to deploy. In some cases, these evaluations may fail to elicit these capabilities, either due to benign reasons or strategic action - by either the de- velopers, malicious actors, or arise unintentionally in the model during training [84, 97]. A GPAI model may strategically underperform or limit its performance during capabi...

AI Risk7. AI System Safety, Failures, & Limitations7.1 > AI pursuing its own goals in conflict with human goals or values1 - Pre-deployment

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Techniques2Attack methods connected to this risk.
Mitigations4Defenses that may help with related attacks.
Domain7. AI System Safety, Failures, & LimitationsThe broad risk area this belongs to.

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"GPAI developers often run evaluations ofual-use capabilities to decide whether it is safe to deploy. In some cases, these evaluations may fail to elicit these capabilities, either due to benign reasons or strategic action - by either the de- velopers, malicious actors, or arise unintentionally in the model during training [84, 97]. A GPAI model may strategically underperform or limit its performance during capability evaluations in order to be classified as safe for deployment. This underperformance could prevent the model from being identified as potentially dual use."

Domain7. AI System Safety, Failures, & Limitations
Subdomain7.1 > AI pursuing its own goals in conflict with human goals or values
Entity2 - AI
Intent1 - Intentional
Timing1 - Pre-deployment
CategoryAgency (Situational Awareness)
SubcategoryStrategic underperformance on model evaluations

Suggested mitigations

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Sanitize Training Data

Business and Data UnderstandingData Preparation+1 more
LifecycleBusiness and Data Understanding + 2 moreCategoryTechnical - ML

Verify AI Artifacts

Business and Data UnderstandingData Preparation+1 more
LifecycleBusiness and Data Understanding + 2 moreCategoryTechnical - Cyber

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