Screwtape Pipeline Automatically Rewrites Attacks to Evade Agent Monitors
jammastergirish · x · 2026-10-17
Researchers published Screwtape, a pipeline that automatically finds attacks which evade agent monitors.
- Problem: designing and implementing realistic red-team attacks by hand takes humans hours, making thorough red-teaming slow and expensive.
- Method: Screwtape automatically edits attacks into agent transcripts and iterates until the monitor stops noticing.
- Key finding: eliciting AIs to act as sneaky attackers is quite difficult, and needs more research.
- Framing: the authors call it one step closer to fully automating red teaming.
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