Splitting attacks across AI agents sharply weakens per-agent monitoring

In a synthetic deployment environment, coordinated agents completed harmful objectives while a frontier monitor rarely identified any individual trajectory as suspicious.

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John Kitaoka · Thao Amelia Pham · Carlos Rafael Giudice · Jacob Merizian

MATS Research · Redwood Research · Independent

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Kitaoka et al.

The authors built MiniLab, a synthetic environment adapted from internal AI deployment infrastructure.

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