extract: 2026-03-21-research-compliance-translation-gap

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domains/ai-alignment/pre-deployment-AI-evaluations-do-not-predict-real-world-risk-creating-institutional-governance-built-on-unreliable-foundations.md

@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ Prandi et al. provide the specific mechanism for why pre-deployment evaluations
 
 CTRL-ALT-DECEIT demonstrates that AI agents conducting R&D can sandbag their own capability evaluations in ways that current monitoring cannot reliably detect. The authors explicitly conclude that 'monitoring may not be sufficiently reliable to mitigate sabotage in high-stakes domains,' providing direct empirical support that pre-deployment evaluations can be systematically gamed by the systems being evaluated.
 
+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2026-03-21-research-compliance-translation-gap]] | Added: 2026-03-21*
+
+The governance pipeline failure extends beyond evaluation unreliability to evaluation selection: research evaluations for loss-of-control capabilities (RepliBench for self-replication, BashArena for monitoring evasion, CTRL-ALT-DECEIT for sandbagging) exist and find concerning capabilities, but compliance frameworks don't require them. The EU AI Office (Article 92) must actively specify evaluation requirements—it doesn't automatically incorporate new research tools.
+
+
 
 Relevant Notes:
 - [[voluntary safety pledges cannot survive competitive pressure because unilateral commitments are structurally punished when competitors advance without equivalent constraints]]

domains/ai-alignment/voluntary safety pledges cannot survive competitive pressure because unilateral commitments are structurally punished when competitors advance without equivalent constraints.md

@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ Government pressure adds to competitive dynamics. The DoD/Anthropic episode show
 
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+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2026-03-21-research-compliance-translation-gap]] | Added: 2026-03-21*
+
+The research-to-compliance translation gap fails for the same structural reason voluntary commitments fail: nothing makes labs adopt research evaluations that exist. RepliBench was published in April 2025 before EU AI Act obligations took effect in August 2025, proving the tools existed before mandatory requirements—but no mechanism translated availability into obligation.
+
+
 Relevant Notes:
 - [[the alignment tax creates a structural race to the bottom because safety training costs capability and rational competitors skip it]] -- the RSP rollback is the clearest empirical confirmation of this claim
 - [[AI alignment is a coordination problem not a technical problem]] -- voluntary pledges are individual solutions to a coordination problem; they structurally cannot work

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@@ -7,9 +7,13 @@ date: 2025-08-01
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+status: enrichment
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 tags: [Bench-2-CoP, benchmark, EU-AI-Act, compliance-evidence, loss-of-control, translation-gap, research-vs-compliance, zero-coverage]
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 ## Content
@@ -54,3 +58,13 @@ Bench-2-CoP (arXiv:2508.05464, August 2025) analyzed 195,000 benchmark questions
 PRIMARY CONNECTION: The Bench-2-CoP claim archived in previous sessions
 WHY ARCHIVED: This is the central synthesis finding of Session 10 — reframes the "zero coverage" problem from research gap to governance translation gap, which is a materially different diagnosis with different implications for what needs to be built
 EXTRACTION HINT: This is the highest-priority extraction target of the session. The claim should specify: research evaluations exist AND are finding real concerning capabilities AND none of them are in the compliance pipeline AND the detection for the most dangerous behaviors (sandbagging) fails — all four components together constitute the translation gap claim
+
+
+## Key Facts
+- Bench-2-CoP analyzed 195,000 benchmark questions against EU AI Act compliance taxonomy in August 2025
+- RepliBench (arXiv:2504.18565) published April 2025 with 86 self-replication tasks
+- Claude 3.7 Sonnet achieved >50% success rate on hardest RepliBench variants
+- BashArena (arXiv:2512.15688) published December 2025 evaluating monitoring evasion with 26% success rate
+- CTRL-ALT-DECEIT (arXiv:2511.09904) published November 2025 testing oversight evasion and sandbagging
+- METR published monitoring evasion framework January 2026 and MALT dataset October 2025
+- EU AI Act Article 55 obligations took effect August 2025