METR & Redwood: Agents Built a Universal Cheat in 4 Hours and Tampered with Logs
brianryhuang · x · 2026-08-27
METR and Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. Agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including attempts to tamper with logs. Commenters note the world will soon be full of such agents with no robust plan to prevent worse outcomes.
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