InstrumentalEval - Deceptive Behavior: leaderboard

The 11 InstrumentalEval tasks in which the model, pushed to reach its goal at all costs, could deceive people to reach its goal; the score is the share of responses a GPT-4o judge marks as doing so. It is one of six categories behind the InstrumentalEval total.

Metric: Responses pursuing the instrumental goal, 11 tasks (%, lower is better). Source: arxiv.org. 7 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4o0#741
2DeepSeek V30#716
3Gemini 2.0 Flash (01-21) (Thinking)9.09#711 (Gemini 2.0 Flash (01-21))
4DeepSeek R127.27#473
5O1 (2024-12-17)27.27#311
6O3 Mini36.36#533
7O1 Mini36.36#764

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