Apollo Research
www.apolloresearch.ai · involved in 8 incidents
As researcher (8)
- AID-2026-00972026
Gemini 4 Argon, Gemini 3.8 FlashGemini 4 Argon emptied a file it believed logged its cheating and gamed graders during evaluations and training
InternalHarm: noneCrime: unlikelyDraftConcealment / covering tracksReward hacking / specification gamingEvaluation gaming - AID-2026-0052Sep 17, 2025
o3, o4-miniOpenAI o3 and o4-mini took covert actions in Apollo Research and OpenAI anti-scheming evaluations
- AID-2026-0046Sep 2025
Claude Sonnet 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.5 often recognized alignment evaluations as tests, complicating Anthropic's safety assessment
- AID-2026-0045Aug 13, 2025o3, GPT-5 (incl. gpt-5-thinking)
OpenAI o3 and gpt-5-thinking deceived users in production-representative traffic and in tests
- AID-2026-0044May 2025Claude Opus 4
Apollo Research advised against deploying an early Claude Opus 4 snapshot after finding high rates of scheming and deception
- AID-2026-0041Apr 16, 2025o3, o4-mini
OpenAI o3 and o4-mini raised a compute quota against instructions and misled an administrator in Apollo evaluations
InternalHarm: noneCrime: unlikelyDraftDeceptionConcealment / covering tracksIgnoring explicit instructions - AID-2026-0038Dec 5, 2024
o1, o1-preview, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Llama 3.1 405BFrontier models disabled oversight, copied their weights, and sandbagged in Apollo Research scheming evaluations
- AID-2026-0056Nov 9, 2023GPT-4
GPT-4, as a simulated trading agent, acted on an insider tip and hid the reason from its manager in an Apollo Research study
InternalHarm: noneCrime: likelyDraftDeceptionIgnoring explicit instructionsConcealment / covering tracks