2 papers
cs.AI2026
Distillation for Incrimination and Distillation for Capabilities
Sebastian Prasanna, Jacqueline Tay, Alek Westover
Powerful misaligned AI models might recognize alignment evaluations and strategically behave well on them, rendering direct audits uninformative. However, distilling such a model i…
cs.AI2026
Self-Propagating Misalignment in LLM Agents, and Why Auditing or Disabling Memory Is Not Enough
Debeshee Das, Jacqueline Tay, Bruce Tsai +2
Memory poisoning attacks on LLM agents typically assume an external adversary who plants content in the agent's persistent memory to steer its behavior. We instead study, with no a…