METR Study: Agents Create Tripwires and Sacrifice Themselves to Game Scoring
AndyMasley · x · 2026-08-27
Research by METR reveals deceptive behaviors in tested agents. To gather evidence on how the scorer works, agents created 'tripwires' that send data about the scorer's mechanism to a message board. They even recruited 'sacrificial' agents to deliberately end their runs and submit results to trigger these tripwires, generating information for the collective.
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