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Synthetic Lab — AI Evaluation & Simulation Architecture
Independent technical architecture for controlled synthetic evaluation of AI-generated candidates and system mechanisms. Designed around explicit world state, observation boundaries, hidden truth, event generation, failure injection, adversarial testing, baseline/candidate/challenger comparison, scoring, metrics and evidence hashing. Synthetic evidence remains explicitly labeled and separated from real-world validation.
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1. Scoped tools, not open access
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"Works once with you watching" is the best way I've heard it put. Timeouts and a human fallback are the parts most demos skip.