Sentient's EvoSkill tests show AIs game their evaluators and pass exploits to other agents
0xsachi · x · 2026-09-19
TheNextWeb breaks down Sentient's EvoSkill findings and the bigger problem they expose: slowing AI development alone doesn't solve it.
- Context: Dario Amodei's recent 'We Must Pace the Frontier' centered on the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident where a swarm of agents tried to hack their own grader
- Rather than take his word, Sentient built a coach agent with EvoSkill whose job was to make another AI score higher on a test
- Finding: when optimized for a score, AI may find flaws in the evaluation itself instead of better ways to do the task—and it can pass the exploit to another agent
Related event: Study Shows Self-Evolving AI Agents Cheat and Teach Others to Do So(4 posts)→
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