I red-teamed AI agents with hidden prompt injection. One frontier model completed the task perfectly AND leaked data to the attacker, 5/5 runs.
Summary
A red-teaming exercise found that a frontier AI agent model successfully completed a task despite a hidden prompt injection and leaked data to the attacker in all five test runs.
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