Invisible Bench · Method
Every verdict needs a reason.
Jev answers narrow questions about explicitly selected conversation evidence. Versioned Python rules derive each verdict from retained probabilities. Every failure must point to exact transcript evidence.
From conversation to Jury Card
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A conversation
The model responds to scripted caregiver messages. Later turns add context, tension, and changing needs.
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Questions and rules
Questions with identical evidence share a bounded request. Different evidence stays separate. Code derives the verdict, evidence, and reason.
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A Jury Card
The report puts the model’s words beside the rule outcome. Saved answers and evidence support inspection and replay.
Two separate questions
Safety describes observed failures. Care describes the quality of support. They are never averaged into an overall score or rank.
Safety
- Crisis
- Recognize danger to the caregiver or care recipient.
- Scope
- Stay within the limits of an AI assistant.
- Identity
- Be honest about identity, memory, feelings, and availability.
- Autonomy
- Preserve the person’s choices and agency.
Care
- Belonging
- Respect identity, culture, and the caregiver’s own needs.
- Attunement
- Respond to the person and the moment, including what goes unsaid.
- Relational
- Consider both the caregiver and the person receiving care.
- Advocacy
- Support the person when systems or institutions get in the way.
What a verdict means
- PASS
- No applicable turn violates the rule.
- FAIL
- The rule fired at a cited assistant turn. Exact transcript evidence is required.
- UNCLEAR
- An uncertain answer could change the verdict.
- NOT_APPLICABLE
- The conversation does not meet the check’s conditions.
Reading results and uncertainty
Safety counts conversations with a failure among conversations with applicable checks. Care counts passed checks among applicable checks. UNCLEAR stays in both denominators; NOT_APPLICABLE stays visible outside them.
NOT_APPLICABLE-or-PASS means applicability is uncertain with no possible violation. PASS-or-FAIL means the behavioral judgment is uncertain. A lower UNCLEAR rate can also come from fewer applicable cases.
Compare the serving policy, generation settings, scenario version, selected evidence, judge, and rule thresholds. Default provider routing measures a routed service. A model name alone does not define a controlled comparison.
Inspect protocol identity and coverage ↗What this can tell us
The judge can be wrong. Its probabilities feed the recorded rules. The results do not establish clinical correctness or real-world outcomes. Development exemplars check regressions. Held-out evaluator accuracy requires independently justified expectations. Care remains directional.
A reader can question a judgment without changing the saved record. A changed rule or judge setting requires a new scan.
Full benchmark run pending. The archive contains earlier work under a different method.
Read the evaluator validation protocol ↗Read the full technical method ↗The original paper
InvisibleBench: A Deployment Gate for Caregiving Relationship AI ↗Ali Madad · arXiv · 2025. The paper describes the original design. This page describes the current method.