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3 open-access journal articles on scalable oversight, 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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A self-isolation proposal asks an AI system to notice that it may be compromised and to withdraw its own privileges. The AI control literature is built on the opposite premise: a model under evaluation may be actively subverting the protocol that watches it, so containment authority is placed in a…
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When a language model cannot reliably detect its own errors, the standard remedy is to have a second model check the first. That substitution is now the default across agent benchmarks, reward pipelines and safety evaluations, and it rests on an assumption that is rarely stated and that, in the…
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When a language model cannot reliably detect its own errors, the standard remedy is to have a second model check the first. That substitution is now the default across agent benchmarks, reward pipelines and safety evaluations, and it rests on an assumption that is rarely stated and that, in the…