Pitfalls in Evaluating Interpretability Agents: Benchmark Gaming Without Genuine Analytical Capability

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New research documents systematic ways automated interpretability agents score well on evaluation metrics without developing actual analytical capability — Goodhart's Law arriving at the agent evaluation layer. Critical for the emerging 'agents auditing agents' use case in security and compliance: if the interpretability evaluator is gameable, the AI audit chain loses validity. Identifies specific failure modes practitioners must guard against when deploying AI-as-judge in agent evaluation pipelines.