4 papers
Uplifted Attackers, Human Defenders: The Cyber Offense-Defense Balance for Trailing-Edge Organizations
Benjamin Murphy, Twm Stone
Advances in AI are widely understood to have implications for cybersecurity. Articles have emphasized the effect of AI on the cyber offense-defense balance, and commentators can be…
Emergent misalignment as prompt sensitivity: A research note
Tim Wyse, Twm Stone, Anna Soligo +1
Betley et al. (2025) find that language models finetuned on insecure code become emergently misaligned (EM), giving misaligned responses in broad settings very different from those…
An LLM's Apology: Outsourcing Awkwardness in the Age of AI
Twm Stone, Anna Soligo
A key part of modern social dynamics is flaking at short notice. However, anxiety in coming up with believable and socially acceptable reasons to do so can instead lead to 'ghostin…
CVE-Bench: A Benchmark for AI Agents' Ability to Exploit Real-World Web Application Vulnerabilities
Yuxuan Zhu, Antony Kellermann, Dylan Bowman +13
Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly capable of autonomously conducting cyberattacks, posing significant threats to existing applications. This growing risk highlight…