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Evaluation science

2 open-access journal articles on evaluation science, published in 2026 in Life of Research. Every record is free to read and download, with a permanent link and a ready-made citation.

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The Precursor Assumption: What an Early-Warning Threshold Must Deliver in a Frontier Safety Framework, Why the Continuity Evidence Covers Aggregates Under Fixed Elicitation Rather Than the Thresholded Task, and the Lead Time No Published Record Measures

Pranay Mahendrakar 2026

Frontier safety frameworks decide when a model needs stronger safeguards by testing it against capability thresholds at a fixed cadence, and they place an early-warning threshold below each capability threshold so that mitigations can be prepared in time. That design is sound only if a warning…

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The Evaluator Is the Bottleneck: What a Self-Modifying System's Acceptance Test Must Satisfy Before Its Verdict Can Be Trusted, Why Co-Evolving Evaluators Shrink the External Anchor Rather Than Remove It, and How Moving the Anchor Outside Moves the Attack Surface With It

Pranay Mahendrakar 2026

Self-modifying AI systems now decide which changes to their own code to keep by running an acceptance test and retaining whatever scores higher. Published coding-agent loops report large benchmark gains this way, and their safety case rests on sandboxes, archives of past versions and the option to…

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