5 papers
Reasoning Models Struggle to Control their Chains of Thought
Chen Yueh-Han, Robert McCarthy, Bruce W. Lee +5
Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is a promising tool for detecting misbehaviors and understanding the motivations of modern reasoning models. However, if models can control what t…
Humanity's Last Exam
Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han +1144
Benchmarks are important tools for tracking the rapid advancements in large language model (LLM) capabilities. However, benchmarks are not keeping pace in difficulty: LLMs now achi…
Deep Ignorance: Filtering Pretraining Data Builds Tamper-Resistant Safeguards into Open-Weight LLMs
Kyle O'Brien, Stephen Casper, Quentin Anthony +7
Open-weight AI systems offer unique benefits, including enhanced transparency, open research, and decentralized access. However, they are vulnerable to tampering attacks which can…
Practical challenges of control monitoring in frontier AI deployments
David Lindner, Charlie Griffin, Tomek Korbak +4
Automated control monitors could play an important role in overseeing highly capable AI agents that we do not fully trust. Prior work has explored control monitoring in simplified…
Fundamental Limitations in Pointwise Defences of LLM Finetuning APIs
Xander Davies, Eric Winsor, Alexandra Souly +4
LLM developers have imposed technical interventions to prevent fine-tuning misuse attacks, attacks where adversaries evade safeguards by fine-tuning the model using a public API. P…