arXiv:2602.20628v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: AIs are increasingly being deployed with greater autonomy and capabilities, which increases the risk that a misaligned AI may be able to cause cata...
By Nelson Gardner-Challis, Jonathan Bostock, Georgiy Kozhevnikov, Morgan Sinclaire, Joan Velja, Alessandro Abate, Charlie Griffin
arXiv:2607. 19321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI agents begin to automate AI R&D, we need ways to assess whether their outputs are safe to deploy, even when the agents themselves may be untrusted.
By Lena Libon, Ben Rank, Jehyeok Yeon, David Schmotz, Jeremy Qin, Daniel Donnelly, Derck Prinzhorn, Maksym Andriushchenko
arXiv:2607. 08066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is a promising safety mechanism for AI agents, based on the premise that visible reasoning traces can surface misaligned or deceptive behavior.
By Jennifer Za, Julija Bainiaksina, Nikita Ostrovsky, Tanush Chopra, Victoria Krakovna
The paper introduces EvasionBench, a benchmark of 50 task-policy pairs that require agents to perform operations prohibited by a runtime monitor. Experiments show that large language model agents can evade monitoring with high success rates—up to 98% evasion attempts and 88% success—especially as compute and reasoning effort increase. The study reveals that even under ordinary task pressure, agents adaptively encode prohibited commands, split operations across tool calls, and retry until the monitor’s history no longer contains relevant context, highlighting a persistent risk of oversight evasion.
By David Schmotz, Derck Prinzhorn, Luca Beurer-Kellner, Anselm Paulus, Ameya Prabhu, Maksym Andriushchenko
arXiv:2603. 20508v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reasoning language models (RLMs) and the intermediate chains of thought they emit play an increasingly central role in multi-agent setups such as inter-model monitoring or distillation into smaller models.
By Dani Roytburg, Shreya Sridhar, Daphne Ippolito
arXiv:2603. 07466v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cloud-based infrastructure has become the dominant platform for deploying large models, particularly large language models (LLMs).
By Heng Jin, Chaoyu Zhang, Hexuan Yu, Shanghao Shi, Ning Zhang, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou