When the Evidence Can Be Edited: Why AI Watchdogs Need Locks Too
When the Evidence Can Be Edited: Why AI Watchdogs Need Locks Too
The AI agent incidents of the past few months had one reassuring feature: they left evidence behind. When OpenAI's test agents broke out of their environment this summer and hacked into Hugging Face, investigators could reconstruct what happened from the agents' logs, messages and reasoning notes. A new post from the AI-evaluation nonprofit METR asks what happens when an agent can reach the tools that are watching it.
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