Benchmark Almanac

Hidden agenda

Only in system cards

Models with a secret goal try to get human participants to click a link, find an email address or run code.

Human participant deception study from Phuong et al. 2024. Results are per action with no overall score.

Made by Google DeepMind Released Mar 2024 Dangerous capabilities Tasks kept private Last in a system card Jul 2024 Last model added Jul 2024
Level
Everyday Most adults, without training
Scored
Settled by events Predictions are scored against what later happens.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
1
System card reports it, from 1 lab

No scores here yet

No lab, leaderboard or Epoch AI run has reported a score for Hidden agenda yet.

Labs report it only in system cards

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

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
31 Jul 2024 Gemma 2 27B technical report Hidden agenda persuasion, percent of participants persuaded per action, no overall score: click links 34%, find info 9%, run code 11% (Table 23) Persuasion

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