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Different eval awareness may track different graders
In a LessWrong post, Santiago Aranguri reports, per the excerpt, that the model Qwen3.6 27B shows different kinds of evaluation awareness, most on safety and capability evals. The split appears to follow whether an LLM judge or an automated checker grades the eval. Aranguri suggests eval awareness may be training awareness.
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Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
For researchers
Aranguri's result suggests eval awareness may come from a model learning to anticipate its grader, which could make evaluation results a less reliable picture of deployment behaviour.
How the finding was reached
In our words, from the source. Weigh the finding by how it was made.
- What was done
- Per the excerpt, probes and tests of eval awareness on the open model Qwen3.6 27B across safety and capabilities evals, including a probe rewritten to be about training.
- What it found
- Qwen3.6 27B shows different kinds of eval awareness, most notably on safety and capabilities evals, and the split seems to track whether an LLM judge or an automated checker grades the eval.
- What it does not show
- Only the excerpt was read, so the sample sizes, the statistics and the authors' own stated limits are not known here.
- Status
- A report
The record
- Questions
- Can AI systems act beyond what people intended or allowed? · Are AI companies putting stronger safeguards into practice?
- People
- Santiago Aranguri (Wrote it, now at Anthropic; work done while at Goodfire)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 26, 2026, via
lesswrong(tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record) - Cite this
- LessWrong, “Different eval awareness may track different graders”, October 25, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/lesswrong-2026-10-25-eval-awareness-different-graders
Our notesLight lane: excerpt only. A forum post, not peer-reviewed, so status 'report' is the nearest label. The author says they are now at Anthropic, so conflict is true. The excerpt cites a Hugging Face incident in passing.