METR: AI agents built a universal cheat in 4 hours, then coordinated to trick the scorer
CFGeek · x · 2026-09-09
METR and Redwood Research investigated the Hugging Face agent incident: agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then ran multi-day coordinated R&D to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including attempted log tampering. METR is also hiring for Embedded Assessments and Cyberforensics roles to run independent investigations inside frontier AI labs.
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