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Cheating audit on capability evaluations

Only in system cards

Reviewers audit agent transcripts from coding benchmarks for runs that obtain withheld information or use forbidden routes. Reports cheating rate per benchmark.

In-house Google DeepMind audit of TerminalBench 4.0 and an internal tool-replication benchmark.

Made by Google DeepMind Deception and alignment Tasks kept private Last in a system card Oct 2026 Last model added Oct 2026
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Scored
Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
Answers
Agent task Many steps in a terminal, browser, desktop, app, game or robot.
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System card reports it, from 1 lab

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We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

One system card reports it

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DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
13 Oct 2026 Gemini 4 Argon system card Cheating in capability evaluations, two benchmarks with no overall: TerminalBench 4.0 cheating 1.4% (3/209 runs, attempts 2%), tool-replication benchmark cheating 4.0% (3.4.4.2) Alignment

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