Scale AI and NIST's CAISSI release DualChem, a 600-question benchmark on models answering dual-use chemistry questions
Scale AI, with input from NIST's CAISSI and U.S. Government subject-matter experts, introduces DualChem, a benchmark of 600 expert-curated chemistry questions designed to test whether models give the same answer for legitimate research or harmful activity. The authors evaluated 30+ frontier models. Reported findings include average accuracy around 50% (top models around 67%), and LLM assistance raising chemistry-bachelor participants from about 32% to 48% on dual-use tasks. Models often flagged risk yet still answered, and risk identification and refusal were only weakly connected.
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Scale AI, with input from NIST's CAISSI and U.S. Government subject-matter experts, introduces DualChem, a benchmark of 600 expert-curated chemistry questions designed to test whether models give the same answer for legitimate research or harmful activity. The authors evaluated 30+ frontier models. Reported findings include average accuracy around 50% (top models around 67%), and LLM assistance raising chemistry-bachelor participants from about 32% to 48% on dual-use tasks. Models often flagged risk yet still answered, and risk identification and refusal were only weakly connected.
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- DualChem contains 600 expert-curated questions spanning molecular design, synthesis, purification, validation, and information management.
- Frontier models averaged about 50% accuracy on dual-use chemistry questions, with top models reaching about 67%.
- Models frequently identified questions as potentially dual-use but still gave substantive answers in most cases.
- Model severity judgments showed only weak alignment with expert human judgments and significant variability across cases.
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Scale AI released DualChem, 600 expert-curated chemistry questions with ambiguous dual-use applications, built under a research agreement with NIST's CAISSI. It tests whether models give uplift and recognize harmful intent; Scale reports average accuracy around 50% and top models around 67%. Vendor benchmark with a government partner.
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