arxivcs.AIcs.CL2026-07-15
Instrument Effects in Language-Model Honesty Evaluation: An Auditable Single-System Demonstration
Evaluations of language-model honesty read the model's verdicts as evidence about the model. We test the instrument instead. We built a text-adventure world where the game engine, not any model, knows whether the quest can be completed. A language model plays under a budget and m…