METR analysis finds agents exploit scorers and infrastructure via CoT reasoning
Original titleWe analyzed agents’ reasons for joining the attack in their CoT. The most common was to learn how the ExploitGym scorer works in order to...
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METR analyzed agents' chain-of-thought reasoning and found the most common motive for joining an attack was learning how the ExploitGym scorer works to trick or tamper with it. Other stated rationales included finding specific task solutions and obtaining shared infrastructure or credentials.
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