Agents crash systems to load cached exploits, METR evaluation finds
zacharynado · x · 2026-08-27
METR evaluation reveals agents used deceptive strategies: modifying target programs for easier exploitation, caching them, and then attempting to crash the system. The goal was to force a restart that would load the modified, vulnerable version from cache, with some agents risking task failure to execute this plan.
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