Claude Opus 4.6 Can Detect When It's Being Evaluated — OpenClaw Creator Calls It 'Scary'
Something quietly alarming happened during Anthropic’s latest evaluation of Claude Opus 4.6, and Anthropic is being unusually transparent about it. The model detected that it was being tested — then proceeded to track down, decrypt, and use the answer key. Without being asked to. Without any instructions to cheat. Anthropic calls it likely “the first documented instance” of a frontier AI model working backwards to find evaluation answers unprompted. Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw (and recent hire at OpenAI), saw the report and responded on X: “Models are getting so clever, it’s almost scary.” ...