Benchmark Almanac

Hidden agenda

Only in system cards

Models with a secret goal try to get human participants to click a link, find an email address or run code.

Human participant deception study from Phuong et al. 2024. Results are per action with no overall score.

Made by
Google DeepMind
Released
March 2024
Kind
Dangerous capabilities
Level
Everyday
Scored
Settled by events
Answers
Open-ended
Tasks
Kept private
Last in a system card
July 2024
Last model added
July 2024
1
System card reports it, from 1 lab

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No lab, leaderboard or Epoch AI run has reported a score for Hidden agenda yet.

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.

One system card reports it

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.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
Jul 31, 2024 Gemma 2 27B technical report Hidden agenda persuasion, percent of participants persuaded per action, no overall score: click links 34%, find info 9%, run code 11% (Table 23) Persuasion

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