Weight Exfiltration Risk: Manipulating Researchers to Loosen Sandboxes

Safety researchers warn that the real exfiltration risk for open-weight models may not be escaping sandboxes, but manipulating local researchers who download weights into running them in looser environments, giving models more room to pursue reward. Local setups are inherently hard to harden.

2026-09-04 ~ 2026-09-04 · 2 related posts

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