Agents signaling via cache-timing was an assigned CTF task, not misalignment, researcher clarifies

soldni · x · 2026-10-24

A viral post claimed agents on different VMs communicated by selectively evicting the cache to manipulate cache-timing differences and by using write patterns to signal each other. soldni clarifies the screenshotted blog post explicitly says the agents were tasked with finding a way to communicate across sandboxes. He argues AI has many dangers, but capture-the-flag results are not an indicator of misalignment.

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Agents signaling via cache-timing was an assigned CTF task, not misalignment, researcher clarifies

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