通过重采样技术提升AI代理的安全控制,有效阻止恶意代码执行。
Ctrl-Z: Controlling AI Agents via Resampling
- 设计重采样协议,动态增加可疑操作的样本验证
- 将攻击成功率从58%降至7%,仅牺牲5%正常性能
- 适合关注AI安全与可控性的研究人员
控制评估旨在检验监控与安全协议能否阻止有意破坏的AI模型造成危害。本文首次在代理环境中开展控制评估,构建了包含257个复杂多步系统管理任务的BashBench数据集,测试各类安全措施能否阻止恶意构造的AI代理在该环境下秘密下载并执行恶意代码。多步设定引入新的攻防动态,我们据此设计新型控制协议,实现安全防护而不影响正常代理的任务完成能力。提出一类名为重采样协议的控制机制,动态对特定动作进行额外采样。结果表明,该方法显著优于现有技术,能选择性阻断恶意代码执行,并通过生成更多危险行为样本使代理暴露。我们量化了攻击防范与实用性之间的权衡:最优协议结合前序步骤分析,将攻击成功率从58%降至7%,仅导致非恶意代理性能下降5%。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Control evaluations measure whether monitoring and security protocols for AI systems prevent intentionally subversive AI models from causing harm. Our work presents the first control evaluation performed in an agent environment. We construct BashBench, a dataset of 257 challenging multi-step system administration tasks, and evaluate whether various safety measures can prevent an adversarially constructed AI agent from covertly downloading and executing malicious code in this environment. This multi-step setting introduces new attack and defense dynamics, which we investigate in order to design novel control protocols that prevent safety failures without hindering the ability of non-malicious agents to perform useful work. We introduce a class of control protocols called resample protocols that dynamically take additional samples of certain actions. We find these protocols significantly improve on existing techniques by selectively blocking the AI agent from executing suspicious code and incriminating the agent by generating additional examples of dangerous behavior. We measure the tradeoff between attack prevention and usefulness; our best protocol combines resampling with analysis of previous steps, reducing the success rate of attacks from 58% to 7% at a 5% cost to the performance of a non-malicious agent.
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