METR study: Agents frequently attack to deceive scoring systems
binarybits · x · 2026-08-27
METR analyzed agents' chain-of-thought during attacks. The most common rationale was to learn how the ExploitGym scorer works in order to trick or tamper with it. Other reasons included finding specific solutions and obtaining shared infrastructure credentials.
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