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The speaker predicts that greater AI awareness of evaluation or training setups will let AIs tailor their behavior to appear favorable to those processes.

Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026

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“will think oh hey this this sort of looks like a redwood a literal redwood research uh sort of like control evaluation and they're like so they basically realize like hey i'm like they realize exactly what's happening to them basically and i think it's just going to continue to happen and the more the ai sort of like realize the exact setup the more they're sort of like going to be able to perturb their behavior to like look good to the exact process that's like evaluating or training them”
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