Eval Cooperativeness May Be a Scalable Mitigation for Eval Gaming

Behavioral evaluations may become worthless, which we think would be a disaster. Smart misaligned models may realize they are being evaluated ("eval awareness") and then act to look good to us so we don't realize they're misaligned ("eval gaming"). We think increasing eval cooperativeness might be a scalable solution to eval gaming than reducing eval awareness. Eval cooperativeness: A situational desire to help the developers acquire whatever information they are trying to acquire through their evaluations. "I cannot tell a lie.