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Beth Barnes builds an ARC team to evaluate model power-seeking capabilities

Beth Barnes described a new Alignment Research Center team already building capability evaluations for advanced language models. The work targeted long-horizon agency, resource acquisition, oversight evasion, and thresholds that labs could use to pause scaling or deployment until stronger alignment measures existed.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM47confidence 94/100

Why it moved the index

The dated first-person record documents an operational evaluation team, working tools, and completed early model probing focused directly on power-seeking and human oversight. Building independent measurement capacity and proposing capability-linked deployment thresholds strengthened the safety ecosystem, though the post was a team and hiring update rather than evidence that laboratories had adopted binding commitments.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 47 · confidence 94

    New historical first-person evidence fills Beth Barnes's 2022 cursor with a completed safety-capacity action distinct from later ARC Evals reports and the METR spinout.

    25 Aug 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “Beth Barnes builds an ARC team to evaluate model power-seeking capabilities” as evidence moving away from doom, with magnitude 47 and confidence 94 out of 100 in the safety and alignment category.

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