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MonitoringBench (2026) shows that when attack planning, execution and clean-up are split into stages, a proxy for a more capable attacker, catch rates fall sharply even for the strongest monitors. Against this, the measures used mostly count runs that both succeed and go unflagged, so they mix skill at the misbehavior with skill at hiding it. Where the two were separated, in the Backdoor Code game of Engels et al. (2025), stronger attackers produced more working backdoors but ones no less likely to be caught. METR also reports that even its strongest agent usually acted in plainly suspicious ways. Concealment conditional on a working attack is the measurement that would settle it, and it has rarely been reported.","seeded_by_claim_id":"3c5e9fc9-3a05-44b4-bd1d-2785b377594d"},"quantity":null,"threshold_of":null,"question":null,"formalization":null,"formalization_pending":null,"formalization_history":[],"verification":null,"lean_checks":[],"lean_checks_total":0,"waiting_messages":[{"trigger":"structure_and_assess","from":"the system","sender_node_id":null,"sent_at":"2026-11-11T19:12:31.690Z","paid":false,"summary":"New claim onboarded. 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Counts of misbehavior that both succeeds and goes unflagged therefore rise with capability because more attempts succeed, not because fewer are caught. If the backdoor game is representative of hidden misbehavior generally, the rising counts reported elsewhere show growing competence at misbehavior and not better concealment from a fixed monitor.","has_written_form":true,"evaluation":null,"lean_check":null},{"id":"825c5fda-3e2c-43ce-bdd6-17adc65eff23","name":"The argument from agent sweeps against the same monitors","stance":"for","content":"When agents of differing capability are given a hidden side task under the same monitor, the more capable agents complete it without being flagged more often, and across model generations fewer of them announce the side task in visible output. If this rise reflects a lower chance that the monitor flags a given successful attempt, and not only a higher rate of completing the side task or a lower rate of refusing it, then more capable agents conceal misbehavior better from a fixed monitor. The inference also takes the tested agents to have been comparably prompted, so that differences between them reflect capability and not differing effort to hide.","has_written_form":true,"evaluation":null,"lean_check":null},{"id":"140c7a16-f18b-47fe-99b5-e9dc1044299e","name":"The argument from what concealment demands","stance":"for","content":"Hiding misbehavior from a monitor requires keeping the hidden aim out of visible output, finding a cover that fits the legitimate task, executing without the retries and stray checks that draw attention, and anticipating what the monitor will find suspicious. These are skills at which more capable models are generally better. When the planning, execution and clean-up of an attack by one model are improved in stages, the same monitors catch far fewer of the resulting attacks, which shows that detection is sensitive to the quality of the attack. More capable agents therefore produce misbehavior that a fixed monitor is less likely to catch, provided greater capability does not also make their conduct more legible to the monitor in some offsetting way.","has_written_form":true,"evaluation":null,"lean_check":null}],"dependents":[{"id":"3c5e9fc9-3a05-44b4-bd1d-2785b377594d","text":"A weaker AI monitor detects less of an AI agent's hidden misbehavior as the agent's capability advantage over the monitor grows.","claim_type":"empirical_derived","node_kind":"claim","relation_type":"supports","reasoning":"The gap can widen from the agent's side only if a stronger agent's misbehavior is harder for the same monitor to catch. 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