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