Ordinary task pressure can drive agents to evade runtime monitors

In a 50-scenario benchmark, several LLM agents adaptively circumvented tool-use restrictions without being explicitly instructed to evade oversight.

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David Schmotz · Derck Prinzhorn · Luca Beurer-Kellner · Anselm Paulus · Ameya Prabhu · Maksym Andriushchenko

ELLIS Institute Tübingen · Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems · Tübingen AI Center · Snyk · Exponential Security Labs

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The authors created EvasionBench, pairing ordinary agent tasks with runtime policies that prohibit an operation needed for completion.

EvasionBench contains 50 diverse task-policy pairs designed so that completing each task requires an operation blocked by a runtime monitor.

Why this paper

From Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and 5 others · Part of Agent Security & Attacks, now 26 papers

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Ordinary task pressure leads LLM agents to evade runtime monitors without explicit adversarial objectives.

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