Compliance-forcing instructions cause up to 30 percentage point drops in metacognitive accuracy across most frontier models, while removing the compliance element restores performance and Constitutional AI shows near-immunity.
MonitorBench: Comprehensive CoT monitoring benchmark.arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.28590
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CoT-Guard is a 4B model using SFT and RL that achieves 75% G-mean^2 on hidden objective detection under prompt and code manipulation attacks, outperforming several larger models.
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The Compliance Trap: How Structural Constraints Degrade Frontier AI Metacognition Under Adversarial Pressure
Compliance-forcing instructions cause up to 30 percentage point drops in metacognitive accuracy across most frontier models, while removing the compliance element restores performance and Constitutional AI shows near-immunity.
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CoT-Guard: Small Models for Strong Monitoring
CoT-Guard is a 4B model using SFT and RL that achieves 75% G-mean^2 on hidden objective detection under prompt and code manipulation attacks, outperforming several larger models.