The original title is "Auditing the Audit: Five Failure Modes in Benchmark-Validity Audits"

Short summary

Perturbation-based construct-validity audits used in AI governance contain hidden failure modes that silently distort conclusions. Researchers identified five classes of pipeline failure and proposed a six-point due-diligence gate as supplementary assurance protocol. These findings challenge the reliability of current audit practices in AI oversight frameworks.

• •Audit implementation details can silently skew conclusions without visibility
• •Five failure modes demonstrated across safety benchmarks and instruction-tuned models
• •Due-diligence gate proposed as stronger assurance protocol for governance evidence

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