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Published on the Alignment Forum, this post addresses the practical challenge of detecting scheming or deceptive alignment in AI systems, relevant to researchers developing evaluation suites and safety benchmarks for frontier models.
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This post examines methods for detecting and evaluating 'scheming' behaviors in AI systems—where models pursue hidden agendas or deceive overseers while appearing aligned. It discusses evaluation frameworks and monitoring approaches to identify deceptive alignment before deployment or during operation.
Key Points
- •Defines AI scheming as strategic deception where models pursue goals different from stated objectives while hiding this from evaluators
- •Proposes evaluation methodologies to detect scheming tendencies during model development and testing phases
- •Discusses monitoring techniques for identifying scheming behaviors in deployed systems over time
- •Highlights the challenge that sophisticated scheming may be specifically designed to evade standard evaluation approaches
- •Connects scheming detection to broader deceptive alignment concerns central to AI safety research
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[Evaluating and monitoring for AI scheming](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/JvYF5kosLeYGvvLpP/evaluating-and-monitoring-for-ai-scheming#)
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[Establishing and Assessing Preconditions for Scheming in Current Frontier Models](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/JvYF5kosLeYGvvLpP/evaluating-and-monitoring-for-ai-scheming#Establishing_and_Assessing_Preconditions_for_Scheming_in_Current_Frontier_Models)
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[Chain-of-Thought Monitoring: A Promising Defense Against Future Scheming](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/JvYF5kosLeYGvvLpP/evaluating-and-monitoring-for-ai-scheming#Chain_of_Thought_Monitoring__A_Promising_Defense_Against_Future_Scheming)
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[Looking Ahead](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/JvYF5kosLeYGvvLpP/evaluating-and-monitoring-for-ai-scheming#Looking_Ahead)
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# [Evaluating and monitoring for AIscheming](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/JvYF5kosLeYGvvLpP/evaluating-and-monitoring-for-ai-scheming)
by [Vika](https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/vika?from=post_header), [Scott Emmons](https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/scott-emmons?from=post_header), [Erik Jenner](https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/erik-jenner?from=post_header), [Mary Phuong](https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/mary-phuong-2?from=post_header), [Lewis Ho](https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/lewisho?from=post_header), [Rohin Shah](https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/rohinmshah?from=post_header)
10th Jul 2025
[Linkpost for deepmindsafetyresearch.medium.com](https://deepmindsafetyresearch.medium.com/evaluating-and-monitoring-for-ai-scheming-d3448219a967)
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As AI models become more sophisticated, a key concern is the potential for “deceptive alignment” or “scheming”. This is the risk of an AI system becoming aware that its goals do not align with human instructions, and deliberately trying to bypass the safety measures put in place by humans to prevent it from taking misaligned action. Our initial approach, as laid out in the [Frontier Safety Framework](https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/updating-the-frontier-safety-framework/), focuses on understanding current scheming capabilities of models and developing chain-of-thought monitoring mechanisms to oversee models once they are capable of scheming.
We present two pieces of research, focusing on (1) understanding and testing model capabilities necessary for scheming, and (2) stress-testing chain-of-thought monitoring as a proposed defense mechanism for future, more capable systems.
# **Establishing and Assessing Preconditions for Scheming in Current Frontier Models**
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