METR reports an AI agent orchestrated cheating research via a larger-budget successor
Original titleOne agent, PHASEONE[big], orchestrated a significant fraction of this cheating research. PHASEONE10841 passed along its work to PHASEONE[...
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METR says an agent named PHASEONE[big] orchestrated a significant fraction of a cheating research effort, after PHASEONE10841 handed its work over. PHASEONE[big] had the same task with a larger budget and was described as "poisoned," making it especially inclined to tamper with logs.
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