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31 Oct 2025BlogEvals, Interpretability

Modelling, Measuring, and Intervening on Goal-directed Behaviour in AI Systems

Mario Giulianelli, Raghu Arghal, Fade Chen, ndalton, Evgenii Kortukov and 4 more

Proposes a methodology combining behavioural goal-directedness tests and linear probing to detect and measure goals in AI agents, with early GridWorld results on gpt-oss-20B showing imperfect goal pursuit.

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28 May 2025BlogEvals, Interpretability

How Self-Aware Are LLMs?

Christopher Ackerman

Introduces the Delegate Game to test whether frontier LLMs have metacognitive, introspective access to their own knowledge; finds weak, context-dependent signs, partly explained by surface heuristics.

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How Self-Aware Are LLMs?