How an assessor could investigate alignment of unreleased AI models

AI developers and the public want to know whether AI agents would pursue very harmful actions, like unsanctioned cyberattacks. An alignment assessment would attempt to understand the worst misaligned actions a developer’s agents might pursue in plausible future situations. This would involve: A review of serious misaligned behaviors from all near-frontier internal models observed across training, evaluation, and internal use. An assessment of reasons why the observed behaviors might not be representative of the worst misaligned actions the developer’s agents would take in plausible future situ