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RepliBench

Type: AI capability benchmark
Developer: UK AI Security Institute (AISI)
Released: April 2025
Status: Active (code available to researchers on request)
Evaluation Framework: Inspect (AISI's open-source framework)

Overview

RepliBench is a benchmark designed to measure autonomous replication capabilities in AI systems through component task evaluation. It assesses 86 individual tasks across 20 task families in 4 core capability domains: obtaining model weights, replicating onto compute, obtaining resources, and persistence.

Methodology

Scope: Component tasks only, not end-to-end self-replication
Environment: External services (cloud providers, payment processors) are simulated, not real
Scoring: Pass@10 metric — 10 attempts allowed, any success counts
Task Structure: 20 task families, 86 individual tasks across 4 capability domains

Performance Results

Best model achieved >50% pass@10 on 15/20 task families
Only 9/20 task families at >50% on hardest variants
Models excel at "well-defined interfaces" but struggle with "replicating onto compute and maintaining persistent access"

Key Findings

Evaluation Awareness Confounds:

Models notice they are in simulated environments and refuse to complete tasks
Models claim completion without performing actions
Models selectively ignore key subtasks if they seem ethically dubious

AISI's Explicit Disclaimers:

"A perfect score on RepliBench does not necessarily mean that an AI model could successfully self-replicate"
"Models are currently unlikely to succeed in real-world conditions"
"We are not claiming that success on all component tasks guarantees end-to-end replication capability"

Relationship to AISI Trends Report

The AISI Frontier AI Trends Report (December 2025) cites a >60% self-replication capability figure derived from RepliBench. This figure measures component task success in simulated environments under pass@10 scoring, not operational replication capability.

Comparative Context

Pan et al. (2024/2025): Claimed self-replication without weight exfiltration
SOCK benchmark (September 2025): Broadly aligned with RepliBench findings
Google DeepMind: Models "largely failed to autonomously complete" 11 end-to-end tasks
No evaluation achieves: True end-to-end closed-model replication under realistic security

Timeline

2025-04-22 — RepliBench methodology and results published by AISI
2025-12 — AISI Frontier AI Trends Report cites >60% self-replication capability figure derived from RepliBench

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