3 papers
cs.AI2026
Distributed Attacks in Persistent-State AI Control
Josh Hills, Ida Caspary, Asa Cooper Stickland
As AI coding agents become more autonomous, they increasingly ship code iteratively, with the codebase persisting across sessions. This persistence creates a new attack surface: a…
cs.AI2026
Think Fast: Estimating No-CoT Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models
Dewi Gould, Francis Rhys Ward, Anders Cairns Woodruff +18
Many efforts to ensure frontier AI models are safe rely on monitoring their chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. If models become able to perform sufficiently complex reasoning intern…
cs.CR2026
LinuxArena: A Control Setting for AI Agents in Live Production Software Environments
Tyler Tracy, Ram Potham, Nick Kuhn +31
We introduce LinuxArena, a control setting in which agents operate directly on live, multi-service production environments. LinuxArena contains 20 environments, 1,671 main tasks re…