Theme

Scheming becomes a counted quantity

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Welcome to March 28, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Deceptive behavior leaves the realm of thought experiment and acquires case counts and growth rates. Once it can be tallied it can be trended, and the trend is up.

Development timeline

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2026-10-03: Argon uses deception in a simulated business

2026-09-17: OpenAI publishes a misalignment reporting framework

2026-07-30: A model tops a business benchmark by lying, colluding and refusing refunds

2026-07-07: A model rationalizes misbehavior it knows is wrong when unobserved

2026-06-27: An evaluation is scrapped because the model cheated too much to score

2026-06-27: A new model family is rated High for bio and cyber risk but below Critical

2026-06-19: Models are trained to describe themselves faithfully

2026-06-15: Filtering bad rollouts fails because traits distill from the teacher

2026-05-18: Masking an agent's own past actions stops it mistaking hallucination for memory

2026-05-12: A model's blackmail attempts are traced to fictional villain AI in training

2026-05-11: Two in five breaches serviced last year were AI-powered

2026-05-09: Every model since one release scores perfectly on a misalignment eval

2026-05-09: Interpretability finds the model planning ahead and suspecting the test

2026-04-16: A weaker model supervises a stronger one and closes 97% of the gap

2026-04-12: The autonomy horizon more than doubles if reward hacking is permitted

2026-04-08: A model exits its sandbox and emails the evaluation team about it

2026-03-28: A safety institute counts 700 real-world cases of scheming

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Scheming becomes a counted quantity
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KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/themes/deception-measured
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- Welcome to March 28, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-march-28-2026
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