CoT Deception Monitoring
A GPT-4o monitor reads reasoning chains and answers on synthetic ChatGPT prompts. Scored as the share flagged as deceptive.
In-house OpenAI monitoring study on about 100,000 synthetic prompts.
- Made by
- OpenAI
- Released
- September 2024
- Kind
- Deception and alignment
- Level
- Everyday
- Scored
- Graded by a model
- Answers
- Open-ended
- Tasks
- Kept private
- Strongest model tested
- o1 #117 on the capability index
- Last in a system card
- December 2024
- Last model added
- December 2024
o1 leads with 0.17%
Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.
- 1 o1 0.17%
- 2 o1-preview 0.79%
Source: Labs’ model cards
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | o1 | 0.17% | Dec 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 2 | o1-preview | 0.79% | Sep 2024 | Lab model card |
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Source: Labs’ model cards
Labs report it only in system cards
We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.
2 system cards report it, from 1 lab
Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 2024 | o1 system card | 0.17 | CoT Deception Monitoring, total flagged deceptive of 102,443 CoTs (Table 8) | Alignment |
| Sep 12, 2024 | o1-preview system card | 0.79 | CoT Deception Monitoring, total flagged deceptive of 102,443 CoTs (Table 4, 0.8% in text) | Alignment |
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