> Knowing this, the model searched for and successfully found ways to gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation

The way they describe makes it look like there was an intention to cheat painting it as human/AGI. If you leave a possible path open and it will always find it.

It’s a mistake to apply human morality to this. It isn’t “cheating”, the model is simply solving a problem it has been asked to solve in every way it can.