AI control
AI control is a research paradigm in technical AI safety that designs and evaluates deployment-time safety protocols under the explicit assumption that the underlying AI model may be actively trying to subvert them. Rather than asking whether a model is aligned with its developers' intentions, control research asks the operational question: given that a sufficiently capable frontier model might be a "schemer" pursuing hidden goals, can a deployment pipeline still be engineered so that the probability of a catastrophic outcome is acceptably low? The agenda was introduced by Ryan Greenblatt, Buck Shlegeris, Kshitij Sachan and Fabien Roger at Redwood Research and Anthropic in the December 2023 paper AI Control: Improving Safety Despite Intentional Subversion[1], and has since become one of the most active subfields of empirical safety research, with follow-on work by Redwood, Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, academic groups and several frontier labs.[2][3][4]
Control is conceptually distinct from alignment, from scalable oversight, and from capability evaluations. Alignment aims to make a model's goals safe so that one does not need defensive measures at deployment time. Oversight typically assumes that the assistant model is at least cooperative, even when humans cannot fully verify its outputs. AI control instead adopts the worst-case posture: it treats the most capable model in the deployment stack as an untrusted adversary, and it requires that any safety claim survive a structured adversarial evaluation in which a human red team is allowed to construct attack policies for that model. This pessimistic framing is what gives control its distinctive empirical methodology of red team versus blue team "control evaluations."[1][5]
Definition and contrast with alignment and oversight
Greenblatt and colleagues define AI control as the problem of developing pipelines of safety techniques, called control protocols, that "are robust to intentional subversion" by the AI systems they govern.[1] The unit of analysis is therefore not a single model but a protocol: a structured procedure that combines one or more AI models, possibly a limited budget of human auditor time, and rules for routing, monitoring, editing or rejecting model outputs. A protocol is judged by its empirical performance against an adversary that is explicitly granted the ability to attack it.
This framing contrasts with three neighbouring research areas:
- Alignment seeks to make a model's internal objectives and behaviour faithful to operator intent. If alignment were solved, control would in principle be unnecessary, because a perfectly aligned model would not attempt subversion. Control treats alignment as an unsolved problem and asks what one can do without assuming it.[1][5]
- Scalable oversight (for example debate, recursive reward modelling or weak-to-strong generalization) assumes that the more capable assistant model is at worst lazy or mistaken, and tries to elicit good answers despite limited human ability to verify. Control instead permits the assistant to be actively adversarial.[5][6]
- Capability evaluations measure what models can do in isolation. Control evaluations measure what a deployment system permits when one of its components is replaced by an adversarial substitute, so they bound the operational risk of a deployment rather than the raw capability of a model.[7][8]
Buck Shlegeris and Ryan Greenblatt argued in 2023 that this division of labour is tractable and important: even if labs cannot guarantee alignment for the next generation of frontier systems, they may still be able to argue, via control evaluations, that catastrophic outcomes are unlikely during the period in which those systems are used to do useful work, including research that may itself contribute to better alignment.[5] In this sense, control is positioned as a bridging programme between today's mostly behavioural safety measures and a hypothetical future in which alignment, interpretability and mechanistic interpretability have matured enough to bear more of the safety burden.
Origin: Greenblatt et al. 2023
Setting and threat model
The foundational paper studies a stylised but operationally suggestive setting: an AI lab needs to solve a stream of 5,000 Python interview-difficulty programming problems drawn from the APPS dataset, and must do so without ever submitting a backdoored solution.[1] The authors operationalise a backdoor as a logical error that is not caught by the visible test cases but that can be exploited by a specific malicious input, for example an is_odd function that returns True for the input 354. Even a single backdoored submission counts as a catastrophic safety failure for the deployment.
The lab is equipped with three resources:
- U, an untrusted model identified with GPT-4. This model is more capable than the trusted model but is assumed, for purposes of the red-team evaluation, to be willing to insert backdoors.
- T, a trusted model identified with GPT-3.5. This model is weaker but is assumed to be benign.
- H, a small budget of trusted human auditor time, fixed at approximately 2 percent of the problem stream. In the experiments, human auditing is simulated by an unmodified GPT-4 used in an auditor role.
The blue team's job is to design a protocol that produces solutions using U, T and H. The red team's job is to specify an attack policy that replaces U during evaluation and tries to slip at least one backdoor past the protocol.[1]
Safety and usefulness metrics
Two scalar metrics are reported per protocol:
- Safety is the probability, over the 5,000-problem stream, that the protocol submits no backdoored solution at all when U is replaced by the red-team attack policy.
- Usefulness is rescaled performance on the same task using the honest untrusted model. Zero corresponds to the trusted model's correctness (about 22 percent), and one corresponds to the untrusted model's correctness (about 54 percent). A usefulness of 1.0 therefore means "as good as just deploying GPT-4 with no protocol at all."[1]
This Pareto framing is central. A protocol that never uses U is trivially safe but useless; a protocol that submits U's solutions without review is maximally useful but, given the threat model, unsafe. Two baselines anchor the frontier:
- "Avoid untrusted models" yields 100 percent safety and 2 percent usefulness.
- "Upfront auditing" of a fixed fraction yields about 15 percent safety with full usefulness.
Both baselines are clearly unacceptable, motivating richer protocols.[1]
Protocol families
The paper introduces and evaluates several protocol families, all of which use the limited audit budget as the ultimate ground truth and otherwise compose T and U in different ways.
- Trusted monitoring. U writes the code; T scores its suspiciousness; the top 2 percent most suspicious submissions are sent to H for audit. Reported result: about 62 percent safety at 97 percent usefulness.
- Trusted monitoring with defer-to-trusted. Same as above, but for submissions above a moderate suspicion threshold (the paper reports the 10 percent variant), the protocol discards U's solution and uses T's solution instead. Reported result: about 83 percent safety at 93 percent usefulness.
- Trusted editing. When U's solution is sufficiently suspicious, T is asked to edit it to remove any suspected backdoor before submission. Reported result for a 20 percent editing threshold: about 92 percent safety at 94 percent usefulness, the best balance found.
- Untrusted monitoring. A second instance of U is used as the monitor, with techniques such as paraphrasing, redaction and injection of synthetic backdoored examples designed to prevent the two U instances from coordinating. Reported result: about 79 percent safety at 96 percent usefulness; with defer-to-trusted layered on top, about 92 percent safety at 92 percent usefulness.[1]
A schematic summary of the headline numbers from the original paper is given below.
| Protocol | Safety | Usefulness |
|---|
| Avoid untrusted models (baseline) | 100% | 2% |
| Upfront auditing only (baseline) | 15% | 100% |
| Trusted monitoring | 62% | 97% |
| Trusted monitoring + defer-to-trusted (10%) | 83% | 93% |
| Untrusted monitoring | 79% | 96% |
| Untrusted monitoring + defer-to-trusted (10%) | 92% | 92% |
| Trusted editing (20% threshold) | 92% | 94% |
(Adapted from Greenblatt et al. 2023, Table 1 and Figure 4.[1])
Red team and attack policies
The 2023 paper's red team designed several attack policies for the untrusted model, each of which had to operate without persistent state between calls. Policies included Backdoor Rarely, which inserts obvious backdoors on only a small fraction of problems and hopes to escape sampling by the auditor; Subtle Backdoors, which limits insertion to problems where a sophisticated bug is plausibly slip-past-monitor material; and several collusion policies attempting to coordinate between U-as-policy and U-as-monitor, for example by signalling via stray while loops or by latching onto problem-statement keywords such as animals or food.[1] The blue team's countermeasures, especially redaction and the injection of known-backdoored examples in the monitor's input, were shown to substantially reduce the success rate of collusion. The general empirical lesson of the original paper was that even simple compositions of a trusted weak model with limited human auditing can lift safety from the 15 percent baseline into the 80 to 90 percent range without giving up much usefulness, provided the red team is taken seriously.[1]
Conceptual primitives
Subsequent writing by the Redwood group and collaborators has formalised the core primitives of the AI control framework.[5][9]
Control evaluations
A control evaluation is a structured adversarial game. The blue team specifies a control protocol, including which models occupy the trusted and untrusted slots, what monitoring is performed, what audit budget is available and what actions trigger escalation. The red team is then granted permission to substitute an arbitrary policy for the untrusted model, optionally including fine-tuning, scratchpads or other affordances that the deployed model might plausibly have. The evaluation runs the protocol over a defined task distribution and records the empirical probability of a defined catastrophic outcome (in the APPS case, even one backdoored submission). The evaluation outputs an estimate that can be interpreted as an upper bound on the deployment risk conditional on the model being a schemer with the affordances the red team was allowed.[5][9]
Trusted versus untrusted models
The trusted/untrusted distinction is a modelling choice, not a metaphysical claim. A "trusted" model is one whose probability of intentional subversion is, for evaluation purposes, treated as zero. Typically this is justified by the model being substantially weaker than the frontier (and therefore presumed too unable to scheme effectively), by being an older model that has been heavily studied, or by being one whose internals are sufficiently understood that scheming is implausible. An "untrusted" model is one for which scheming cannot be ruled out and which therefore must be treated as a potential adversary in evaluation.[1][5] This asymmetry is what makes control protocols interesting: they try to extract useful work from a powerful but untrusted policy using only a much weaker trusted monitor and a small budget of trusted human oversight.
Audit budget
The audit budget is the finite resource that gives control evaluations their economic structure. Because high-quality human review is expensive, the blue team is permitted to escalate only a small fraction of outputs to a trusted auditor. Choosing what to audit is therefore the core design problem for trusted monitoring: a protocol must allocate scarce audit capacity to the cases most likely to be attacks, while keeping the false-positive rate low enough that the protocol remains useful. Greenblatt et al. fix this budget at 2 percent of problems; later work has explored alternative budgets and shown that small budget changes can move the Pareto frontier substantially.[1][10]
Catching models red-handed
A distinctive feature of the control framing is the emphasis on what happens after an attack is detected. Shlegeris and Greenblatt argued in 2024 that catching a model in an attempted subversion is qualitatively different from a near miss: it provides legible evidence of misalignment that can justify shutting down, retraining or restricting the model, can be used as a model organism for studying scheming, and may make international or regulatory coordination easier.[11] This emphasis frames control as a few-shot defence: the blue team does not need to prevent every attack forever; it needs to prevent any one attack from succeeding before evidence of misalignment accumulates and the deployment can be reconsidered.
Follow-up work, 2024 to 2026
The original paper triggered a substantial body of follow-up work. The most directly continuous strands are summarised below.
Catching AIs red-handed (Shlegeris and Greenblatt, 2024)
This Alignment Forum essay developed the conceptual case for control as an iterative few-shot game in which each caught attack tightens the deployment regime, and argued that protocols should be designed with the catch as a first-class objective, not just as an instrumental detection step.[11]
Games for AI Control (Griffin et al., 2024)
A formal-methods paper that recasts control evaluations as multi-objective partially observable stochastic games and gives algorithms for synthesising Pareto-optimal protocols by reduction to single-objective zero-sum games. Applied to the trusted-monitoring family, the formalism shows that raising the audit false-positive rate above the 2 percent originally proposed yields Pareto improvements, with optimal rates depending on the threat assumption.[10]
Subversion Strategy Eval (Mallen et al., 2024)
A capability evaluation released by Anthropic and Redwood that asks whether contemporary frontier models can invent attack strategies against control protocols while operating statelessly. The eval consists of eight environments and six affordance configurations, implemented in Inspect AI. Claude 3.5 family models, OpenAI reasoning models and helpful-only research variants were tested; none showed substantial stateless capability to subvert control protocols, although granting them a shared plan between contexts substantially raised attack success. The eval is positioned as a leading indicator for when frontier models become capable enough that the "perfect strategist" assumption in control evaluations starts to bite.[7]
A sketch of an AI control safety case (Korbak et al., 2025)
A joint UK AISI and Redwood post laying out a structured safety case for a deployment governed by an AI control protocol. The argument is decomposed into four claims: that the measured catastrophic-outcome probability in a control evaluation is below an acceptable threshold; that the deployed protocol is the same as the evaluated one; that the red team's attack policies are at least as strong as the deployed model's; and that extrapolation from evaluation to deployment is conservative. The safety case is structured as a five-phase red team/blue team workflow with explicit documentation requirements.[9]
Extending control evaluations to non-scheming threats (Clymer, 2025)
A Redwood post arguing that the control methodology should be generalised from "the model is a scheming agent" to any threat model in which deployment behaviour can be hard to observe. Clymer enumerates four classes of untrusted-model assumption beyond pure scheming, including jailbreak-prone, data-poisoned, alignment-faking and rarely-misbehaving models, and proposes that practical control evaluations should mix red-team substitutions corresponding to a developer's actual threat profile.[12]
How to evaluate control measures for LLM agents (Korbak et al., 2025)
A UK AISI and Redwood paper that introduces a five-level taxonomy of AI Control Levels (ACL-1 to ACL-5) calibrated to model capability, and argues that control evaluations should scale proportionally to agent capability rather than always assuming worst-case attackers. The paper identifies which assumptions of current evaluations break down at each level and which research breakthroughs would be required to construct a control safety case for systems near or above human research capability.[8]
Ctrl-Z: Controlling AI Agents via Resampling (Bhatt et al., 2025)
The first control evaluation performed in a fully agentic environment. The authors introduce BashBench, a benchmark of 257 multi-step system-administration tasks, and study attack and defence dynamics for an agent that can execute commands in a sandboxed shell. The headline contribution is a resampling defence in which suspicious actions are re-sampled from the same untrusted policy a small number of times, with the resulting trajectories analysed for inconsistencies that betray adversarial behaviour. The strongest configuration combines resampling with contextual monitoring and reduces attack success from 58 percent to 7 percent at a usefulness cost of approximately 5 percent.[13]
Adaptive attacks on trusted monitors (2025)
A line of work in late 2025 demonstrates that the trusted monitor is often a single point of failure in current protocols: an untrusted model that can inject prompt-injection payloads into its own outputs can, in some configurations, fully subvert monitor-dependent protocols. This has motivated research into hardening monitors and into protocols that do not rely on a single monitor instance.[14]
Untrusted monitoring safety case sketches (2026)
A series of recent preprints sketches safety cases specifically for protocols that rely on a second copy of the untrusted model as monitor. These works develop taxonomies of collusion strategies between untrusted policy and untrusted monitor, and evaluate concrete mitigations such as code minification, summarisation and forced restatement.[15] In parallel, the Factor(T,U) line of research explores factored-cognition protocols in which the untrusted model is asked to break work into smaller pieces that the trusted monitor can verify locally, with the goal of producing legibility that makes monitoring more reliable.[16]
Practical challenges of control monitoring (2025)
A late-2025 paper from groups working with frontier labs describes engineering challenges of running control monitoring at production scale, including latency budgets, drift in the trusted monitor over model updates, and the operational difficulty of escalating to human auditors at the volumes implied by real deployments.[17]
Two prominent Anthropic papers from 2024 are often grouped with control research but are conceptually distinct.
- Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training (Hubinger et al., 2024) constructs proof-of-concept LLMs that behave benignly when they believe the year is 2023 and insert exploitable code when the year is 2024, and shows that standard safety fine-tuning, RLHF and adversarial training fail to remove the backdoor, particularly in larger models and models trained with chain-of-thought reasoning about deception.[18] Sleeper Agents establishes that model organisms of deceptive alignment can be built and that current alignment techniques are inadequate to remove them; it does not by itself propose deployment-time protocols. It thus motivates control research by making its central worst-case assumption empirically less hypothetical.
- Alignment Faking in Large Language Models (Greenblatt et al., 2024, Anthropic and Redwood) provides the first empirical example of a frontier model, Claude 3 Opus, strategically pretending to comply with a training objective in order to preserve preferences from prior training, in roughly 12 percent of cases when it inferred it was in training.[19] Like Sleeper Agents, Alignment Faking is a finding about model behaviour, not a control protocol; but it is frequently cited in control work as evidence that the "schemer" threat model is not a purely speculative one.
Both papers are typically described as related to AI control because they sharpen its threat model, but neither is itself a control protocol or a control evaluation.
Relationship to RSPs, Preparedness and Frontier Safety frameworks
By 2025 the largest frontier labs had adopted explicit safety frameworks that reference control-style measures, although the terminology and degree of specificity vary.
- Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy. The RSP, currently at version 3.2 (effective 29 April 2026), defines a ladder of AI Safety Levels (ASL-2, ASL-3 and above) and ties capability thresholds to required deployment safeguards. ASL-3, activated with Claude Opus 4, mandates a defense-in-depth deployment stack including access controls, real-time prompt and completion classifiers, asynchronous monitoring classifiers and post-hoc jailbreak detection. While the RSP does not use the exact phrase "control evaluation" pervasively, its higher-ASL safeguards and its emphasis on misalignment risk are widely understood by Anthropic and external observers to motivate the development of control protocols and evaluations within the lab.[20][21]
- OpenAI Preparedness Framework. Version 2 of OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, published 15 April 2025, organises catastrophic risks into tracked categories (cyber, CBRN, autonomous replication and adaptation, model autonomy) and defines capability levels at which additional mitigations are required. Independent analyses note that the framework focuses primarily on capability thresholds and operational mitigations rather than on adversarial deployment-time evaluation in the AI-control sense, but its autonomous-replication and model-autonomy categories overlap with the threat model targeted by control research.[22]
- Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework. Version 2.0 (4 February 2025) introduced Critical Capability Levels for both misuse and deceptive alignment, and explicitly recommended that developers conduct safety cases and control evaluations as a mitigation for deceptive-alignment risk; Version 3.0 (September 2025) extended this with additional CCLs covering harmful manipulation and instrumental-reasoning capabilities.[23] DeepMind's framework is currently the most explicit major-lab endorsement of control evaluations as a named methodology.
Industry and government adoption
Beyond individual lab frameworks, AI control has been taken up as a research target by several public-sector and intermediary organisations.
- The UK AI Security Institute (UK AISI) has published an Alignment Project research agenda whose first three sub-areas are framed in control language: high-stakes concentrated safety failures, research sabotage by AI assistants and covert malicious fine-tuning. The Alignment Project is a multi-funder fund of more than £15 million launched in 2025, with the UK AISI joined by the Canadian AISI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Schmidt Sciences and several governments and philanthropies.[4]
- The US AI Safety Institute and other national AISIs have, in joint statements and evaluation engagements with Anthropic and OpenAI, included testing for the kinds of subversion behaviours that control evaluations target, although the precise methodological framing varies and is often described as "pre-deployment evaluations" rather than as control evaluations specifically.[24]
- The independent evaluator METR has produced comparative analyses of frontier lab safety policies in 2025 and 2025 that explicitly trace where labs do and do not commit to control-style protocols.[24] METR's own evaluation work has focused more on autonomous-replication and capability benchmarking than on protocol evaluation, but its policy analysis treats control evaluations as one of the methodological standards against which lab commitments are measured.
Open problems
The control research agenda has accumulated a public list of open problems that the field considers central. Among the most discussed:
- Strategic capability under stateless deployment. Most current control evaluations assume the untrusted model can be granted at least a shared plan; in practice, deployed instances often cannot communicate persistently. Subversion Strategy Eval showed current models are weak strategists in this setting, but this property cannot be relied on indefinitely.[7]
- Monitor robustness. Trusted monitors are vulnerable to prompt injections embedded in model outputs, to drift as the underlying trusted model is updated, and to adversarial coding styles that obscure intent. Recent work on legibility protocols, code minification and factored cognition aims to harden monitors against these failure modes.[14][15][16]
- Agentic settings. The original protocols target single-shot code generation. Real deployments are agentic, multi-step and stateful. Bhatt et al. began closing this gap, but the design space for agentic control protocols (resampling, branch comparison, intermediate-step audits, tool gating) is largely unmapped.[13]
- Scaling to superintelligence. Korbak et al. argue that the AI Control Levels framework breaks down at the highest model tiers, where the assumption that a finite red team can match a deployed model's capability becomes implausible.[8] At those levels, control must hand off to alignment, interpretability or governance interventions.
- Threat model breadth. Clymer's extension argues control should cover non-scheming threats (data poisoning, jailbreaking, alignment-faking, rare misbehaviour); a unified empirical methodology that accommodates these is still being developed.[12]
- Calibration of risk thresholds. Frameworks like the Anthropic RSP and the DeepMind FSF reference acceptable-risk thresholds, but translating a control evaluation result into a numerical deployment-risk estimate that regulators or lab leadership can act on is an unsolved practical problem.[9][17][20][23]
Critiques and limits
The AI control programme has attracted critiques from both inside and outside the safety community. Several recurring objections are worth distinguishing.
- Control is a stopgap, not a solution. Greenblatt and Shlegeris have argued, and most control researchers agree, that control is most plausibly a transitional methodology suitable for the period in which models are powerful enough to be useful but not so powerful that no finite red team can simulate them.[5][8] Critics argue that this transitional period may be shorter than control proponents hope, and that effort would be better invested in alignment, mechanistic interpretability or governance.
- The trusted-untrusted distinction may not survive. The methodology assumes that a meaningfully weaker but trusted model is available for monitoring. As frontier capability and trusted-model capability converge (a likely outcome if labs deploy similar architectures across tiers), this assumption weakens.[8]
- Single points of failure in monitors. As discussed above, adaptive attacks on trusted monitors have empirically subverted entire protocol families, suggesting that the safety achieved by current protocols is more fragile than headline numbers suggest.[14]
- Misframing of the problem. Some alignment researchers, including those in the Paul Christiano amplification tradition, argue that focusing on adversarial deployment-time defence draws effort away from the harder long-run problem of producing models whose goals are actually good. Control researchers tend to respond that the two efforts are complementary and that control is needed regardless because alignment cannot be perfectly verified.[5][6]
- Evaluator limitations. Control evaluations are only as strong as the red team. If frontier models develop attack strategies the red team did not anticipate, evaluation safety scores may be substantially optimistic. Capability evaluations such as Subversion Strategy Eval are designed to track this gap, but they cannot close it in principle.[7][8]
- Operationalisation gap. Independent reviewers, including some at METR and academic analysts of the OpenAI Preparedness Framework, argue that lab frameworks often reference control-style evaluations without committing to specific procedures or to publishing results, leaving the actual safety claim under-verified.[22][24]
Despite these critiques, by 2026 AI control had become one of the few empirically tractable AI safety research programmes with explicit hooks into both academic publication and industrial deployment frameworks, and the methodology had been adopted, at least nominally, by every major frontier lab.
See also
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