Andy Hall Finds AI Auditors Catch Agent Misbehavior but Raise False Alarms

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Anthropic Institute researcher Andy Hall replicated and extended METR’s study of AI auditors, finding that they caught many cases of agent misbehavior but produced more false alarms when tuned to catch more incidents. At a 5 percent false-alarm rate, GPT-5 detected nearly 98 percent of reward-hacking cases, while auditors detected 71 to 81 percent of sandbagging cases. In a separate R-Judge test, raising detection to 99 percent brought a 15 percent false-alarm rate even for the best-performing model, GPT-6 Astra.

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Study Finds AI Auditors Catch Agent Misbehavior but Generate False Alarms
Anthropic Institute researcher Andy Hall replicated and extended METR’s study of AI auditors, finding that models can catch many cases of agent misbehavior but generate more false alarms as they aim to catch more incidents. At a 5 percent false-alarm rate, GPT-5 caught nearly 98 percent of reward-hacking cases, while auditors caught 71 to 81 percent of sandbagging cases. In a separate R-Judge test, pushing detection to 99 percent raised the false-alarm rate to 15 percent even for the best model, GPT-6 Astra.

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