TL;DR Recent work from Goodfire & UK AISI – Verbalized Eval Awareness Inflates Measured Safety – shows that newer open-weight models verbalize evaluation-awareness (VEA) more often, and that this inflates measured safety. Between OLMo-3-32B-Think and OLMo-3.1-32B-Think – identical base, SFT, DPO, and RL data, differing only in an additional ~3...