“Monitorability evaluations and policy proposals” by evhub

LessWrong (30+ Karma) · Oct 22, 2026 · 8m

There has been a lot of discussion recently of policy proposals around monitorability, such as Redwood's proposal and my counter-proposal. I'd like to say a bit more generally about how I'm thinking about monitorability. Note that nothing here is an official Anthropic position; these are just my personal thoughts.

First, a categorization. I currently think about four different types of monitorability:

Control Monitorability: the extent to which Control and monitoring techniques would likely catch catastrophic sabotage actions, like escaping a sandbox or setting up a rogue internal deployment…