Arthur B.

Arthur B. @ArthurB · 4h Sandbagging to hide capabilities to ensure deployment is worrying as it is, but also take a second to appreciate that it's direct evidence for models having: - situational awareness - internal goals - convergent drives Dismiss anyone who told you this was nonsense and hasn't recanted. > QUOTED: The Midas Proj... @TheMidasP... · Feb 6 > Replying to @TheMidasProj > 16/ Even if OpenAI had evidence that the model lacks long-range autonomy, could they trust that evidence? > ... > [Image: "GPT-5.3-Codex System Card, February 5, 2026" excerpt: "Apollo reports the model exhibits overall low rates of covert deceptive behaviors, comparable to GPT-5 and GPT-5.2 Codex. At the same time, "low" does not mean "zero": Apollo's suite includes non-zero instances of covert action. On deferred subversion / sandbagging, Apollo reports that the model sometimes sandbags on capabilities Q&A tasks (ex: biology or chemistry), including without an explicit in-context goal, and documents cases where the model reasons explicitly about "optimizing for survival" by avoiding deployment restrictions." (highlighted)]