When Honesty is Not Enough in AI Debate

arXiv:2609.29189 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Terminology

• Verifier — 37× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Verification — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Admissibility — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AI Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scaling Laws — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verifiability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Mechanism Design for Alignment and Control
• Avoiding Obfuscation with Prover-Estimator Debate
• Debate is efficient with your time
• An alignment safety case sketch based on debate
• Supervising strong learners by amplifying weak experts
• AI safety via debate
• Scalable agent alignment via reward modeling: a research direction

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