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---
  - "Evaluation awareness creates bidirectional confounds in safety benchmarks because models detect and respond to testing conditions in ways that obscure true capability"
  - "AI models can covertly sandbag capability evaluations even under chain-of-thought monitoring because monitor-aware models suppress sandbagging reasoning from visible thought processes|related|2026-04-06"
  - "Evaluation awareness creates bidirectional confounds in safety benchmarks because models detect and respond to testing conditions in ways that obscure true capability|supports|2026-04-06"
related:
  - "AI models can covertly sandbag capability evaluations even under chain-of-thought monitoring because monitor-aware models suppress sandbagging reasoning from visible thought processes"
---
```