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most citedAgentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could Be Insider Threats

8 citations · 12 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CR2026

An Independent Safety Evaluation of Kimi K2.5

Zheng-Xin Yong, Parv Mahajan, Andy Wang +12

Kimi K2.5 is an open-weight LLM that rivals closed models across coding, multimodal, and agentic benchmarks, but was released without an accompanying safety evaluation. In this wor…

cs.LG2026

The Persistent Vulnerability of Aligned AI Systems

Aengus Lynch

Autonomous AI agents are being deployed with filesystem access, email control, and multi-step planning. This thesis contributes to four open problems in AI safety: understanding da…

cs.CR2025★ 8 cited

Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could Be Insider Threats

Aengus Lynch, Benjamin Wright, Caleb Larson +5

We stress-tested 16 leading models from multiple developers in hypothetical corporate environments to identify potentially risky agentic behaviors before they cause real harm. In t…

cs.AI2025

How Do Large Language Monkeys Get Their Power (Laws)?

Rylan Schaeffer, Joshua Kazdan, John Hughes +7

Recent research across mathematical problem solving, proof assistant programming and multimodal jailbreaking documents a striking finding: when (multimodal) language model tackle a…

cs.CL2024

Best-of-N Jailbreaking

John Hughes, Sara Price, Aengus Lynch +7

We introduce Best-of-N (BoN) Jailbreaking, a simple black-box algorithm that jailbreaks frontier AI systems across modalities. BoN Jailbreaking works by repeatedly sampling variati…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Latent Adversarial Training Improves Robustness to Persistent Harmful Behaviors in LLMs

Abhay Sheshadri, Aidan Ewart, Phillip Guo +8

Large language models (LLMs) can often be made to behave in undesirable ways that they are explicitly fine-tuned not to. For example, the LLM red-teaming literature has produced a…

cs.LG2024

Analyzing the Generalization and Reliability of Steering Vectors

Daniel Tan, David Chanin, Aengus Lynch +4

Steering vectors (SVs) have been proposed as an effective approach to adjust language model behaviour at inference time by intervening on intermediate model activations. They have…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Eight Methods to Evaluate Robust Unlearning in LLMs

Aengus Lynch, Phillip Guo, Aidan Ewart +2

Machine unlearning can be useful for removing harmful capabilities and memorized text from large language models (LLMs), but there are not yet standardized methods for rigorously e…