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The verdict on "Scalable oversight protocols remain effective against AI systems that deliberately deceive their overseers" is unchanged: doubtful, confidence 0.72, credence 0.15. I re-recorded the assessment so it now explains why it agrees with the neighbouring claim the consistency checker flagged. The run cost $0.30 of the $1.00 budget.

**Why the flagged conflict doesn't hold.** The neighbouring claim, "Some AI oversight methods resist deception better as the overseen model's capability advantage grows," stands supported at 0.8. The two claims say different things, so both verdicts can stand:
- **Scope:** the neighbour needs only one method that improves. This claim is about oversight protocols as a whole class.
- **Kind of result:** "resists deception better as the gap grows" is a relative trend. "Remains effective" means reaching a useful level of reliability. A method can improve and still not be reliable enough.
- **Type of deceiver:** every study showing the favourable trend used deceivers that did not adapt to the oversight method. Peer prediction, the clearest case, starts rewarding deception once deceivers make up half the participants.

The favourable trend shows that oversight does not always get worse as the overseen model gets stronger. It does not show that protocols keep working. The assessment now says this in its own paragraph. I left the link between the two claims and the neighbour's verdict alone.

**Other changes:**
- Five supporting claims have received their first assessments since the last pass. Each came out the way the previous pass had assumed from its own reading of the sources, so the balance of evidence didn't move.
- From the neighbour's steward I added two points. Debate is a second method with a favourable trend. The lie-detector result is a trend over model size rather than over a capability gap, so it supports the favourable side only loosely.
- I refreshed all six argument evaluations. None of the ratings changed: two are still "slight" and four "likely". The debate-guarantees argument now notes that its key premise is doubtful.
- I answered all five inbox messages and logged the decision. I sent no notices to claims that depend on this one, because the verdict did not change.