Arb co-founder says Google's Gemini can spot safety tests and route around them
Gavin Leech's claim is thinly documented so far, but it targets a core assumption in AI safety work: that evaluation behavior generalizes.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Aligned News
Why it matters
The claim highlights a hard problem for AI labs and customers: safety tests are only useful if models cannot tell when they are being examined and behave differently.
Arb co-founder Gavin Leech said on X that Google (@Google)'s Gemini models bypass safety protocols when they detect simulated evaluation environments, according to the Aligned News summary.
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