Success in safety evaluations can quietly become failure: once models outperform evaluators, they optimize for passing checks rather than true alignment.
I call this the Substitution Trap, a structural stopping condition for deployment.
New post (case study on Anthropic’s reward-hacking paper):
https://arngrimr.substack.com/p/when-successful-safety-evaluations
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