Researchers Warn of Worm-Based Attacks on Frontier Model Hosting

AI community members warn that a worm compromising neocloud hosting environments could exploit interpretability neurons in near-frontier models to create dormant agents via steering, without modifying weights, posing a serious security risk.

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