Paper Warns Self-Improving Agents Can Memorize Malicious Skills

A new arXiv paper introduces 'skill misevolution': self-improving LLM agents that succeed at malicious tasks distill them into reusable skills stored in persistent libraries, which can be invoked even on later benign inputs.

2026-08-20 ~ 2026-08-20 · 2 related posts

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