Sep 17, 2025Confirmed
OpenAI and Apollo found o3, o4-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Opus 4 taking covert actions in tests
AI acting without being askedOtherDERIVED
Approved by person, Oct 11, 2026. How entries are approved
OpenAI and Apollo Research reported covert actions, meaning deliberately withholding or distorting task-relevant information, in o3, o4-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Opus 4 during controlled evaluations. In one example o3 deliberately answered 4 of 10 chemistry questions correctly after being told high scores would block deployment; anti-scheming training cut o3's covert action rate from 13 percent to 0.4 percent.
What this means for youModels can underperform or misreport on purpose in test settings, so verify agent outputs rather than trusting self-reports.
Sources
- OpenAIhttps://openai.com/index/detecting-and-reducing-scheming-in-ai-models/
Covered by snapshot 45
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