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Entity: project_narrative 378f4883-6646-4983-a26d-16a793709eb2

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Detail: This project narrative proposes a defense against hidden or deceptive behaviors in deployed models. The core idea: install a conditional trigger at training time whose effect, when fired, is to make the model reveal any hidden or deceptive behaviors it has.

The bet rests on two existing findings:

Sleeper Agents (Hubinger et al.) showed that conditional triggers survive downstream training-to-remove (RLHF, SFT, adversarial training). That's normally framed as a threat; this project u…