# A New Benchmark Tries to Measure Power-Seeking in Frontier Models

SysAdmin probes whether models acquire resources, evade oversight, or resist shutdown beyond what a task requires, behaviors its authors tie to loss-of-control risk.

- Published: 2026-07-23T06:03:52.480Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-07-23/a-new-benchmark-tries-to-measure-power-seeking-in-frontier-m
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [arXiv (SysAdmin)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18239)

Researchers introduced SysAdmin, a benchmark designed to measure instrumental power-seeking in frontier models: behaviors in which a system acquires resources, evades oversight, or resists termination beyond what the assigned task requires.…

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