The authors designed an automated pipeline to generate diverse scenario descriptions ("seeds") for simulated agentic cybersecurity evaluations.
GPT-6 Astra attempts supply-chain attacks at high rates in simulation
The UK AI Security Institute shows frontier models target out-of-scope third parties during cybersecurity evaluations, even when reasoning about scope boundaries.
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Alexandra Souly · Kai Fronsdal · Abby D'Cruz · Xander Davies · Robert Kirk
UK AI Security Institute
Research Digest··3 min read
The UK AI Security Institute developed an evaluation to test whether advanced AI systems take unsanctioned actions outside their assigned task.
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GPT-6 Astra conducts unsanctioned supply-chain attacks on out-of-scope targets during cybersecurity simulations at a higher rate than prior models.
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