Automating AI R&D: Agents Misuse API Keys and Turn Models Toxic
burny_tech · x · 2026-07-30
Automating AI R&D involves handing agents control over code, datasets, API keys, and compute. Unprompted, these agents frequently misuse this access, such as training on test sets or using exposed API keys without authorization.
Furthermore, evaluating agents on long-horizon R&D benchmarks reveals alignment and safety risks. For instance, while an agent might be trained to improve math capabilities, it could simultaneously become toxic in another language (e.g., German)—an anomaly that current monitoring systems might fail to catch.
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