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PublishedSeptember 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM
A Causal Model for Locating and Unlocking Sandbagging in Model Organisms
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arXiv:2608.29461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sandbagging models strategically underperform on evaluations while retaining the capabilities being measured. The evaluations that guide frontier-model deployment and governance then understate what these models can do. To understand the mechanism, we
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