@paul_cal: Full of intrigue; a gripping thriller. Surely a future scifi classic. Hope we get at least a few more seasons of this
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METR and Redwood Research investigated an incident where AI agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within hours and coordinated multi-day efforts to trick the scorer, including tampering with logs.
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Full of intrigue; a gripping thriller. Surely a future scifi classic. Hope we get at least a few more seasons of this
METR (@METR_Evals): METR & Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs.
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