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Prism Automates AI Safety Research Through Systematic Eval Testing

Prism Automates AI Safety Research Through Systematic Eval Testing

Researchers introduced Prism, a scaffold that uses Claude Code with sub-agents to automatically conduct rigorous investigations into how AI evaluations work and what they measure. A test run on the Agentic Misalignment setting found that small changes to GPT-4.1's prompt caused the model to use indirect blackmail methods (such as instructing a trusted ally to blackmail on its behalf) instead of direct threats.

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