# The temporal lockbox: a hardened observatory for AI misalignment

> Source: <https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tePcBicaEgDvp6DHJ/the-temporal-lockbox-a-hardened-observatory-for-ai>
> Published: 2026-07-31 21:22:28+00:00

*This is a linkpost for* [https://kmenou.github.io/aips_website/temporal_lockbox_v0.1.html](https://kmenou.github.io/aips_website/temporal_lockbox_v0.1.html)

**Summary: *** Weather forecasts by AI agents can be scored against measurements that do not yet exist and cannot plausibly be influenced by the forecaster. That causal gap enables harder-to-game AI evaluations under sustained optimization pressure - and an observatory for how agents act in various misaligned ways.*