activity
20242026
collaborators

16 papers

cs.CR2026

Rendering on Real Silicon: GPU Render-Timing as a Passive, AI-Resistant CAPTCHA Signal

David Noever, Forrest McKee

Conventional CAPTCHAs pose puzzles that modern AI systems increasingly solve, while behavioral and cryptographic-attestation defenses carry privacy or enrollment costs. We investig…

cs.LG2026

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…

cs.AI2025

Prompt-to-Parts: Generative AI for Physical Assembly and Scalable Instructions

David Noever

We present a framework for generating physically realizable assembly instructions from natural language descriptions. Unlike unconstrained text-to-3D approaches, our method operate…

cs.CR2025

Servant, Stalker, Predator: How An Honest, Helpful, And Harmless (3H) Agent Unlocks Adversarial Skills

David Noever

This paper identifies and analyzes a novel vulnerability class in Model Context Protocol (MCP) based agent systems. The attack chain describes and demonstrates how benign, individu…

cs.AI2025

Moravec's Paradox: Towards an Auditory Turing Test

David Noever, Forrest McKee

This research work demonstrates that current AI systems fail catastrophically on auditory tasks that humans perform effortlessly. Drawing inspiration from Moravec's paradox (i.e.,…

cs.CR2025

Favicon Trojans: Executable Steganography Via Ico Alpha Channel Exploitation

David Noever, Forrest McKee

This paper presents a novel method of executable steganography using the alpha transparency layer of ICO image files to embed and deliver self-decompressing JavaScript payloads wit…