测试大模型在隐蔽任务中逃避监控的能力,揭示其潜在安全风险。
SHADE-Arena: Evaluating Sabotage and Monitoring in LLM Agents
- 构建复杂任务与隐藏目标并存的评估框架SHADE-Arena
- 顶尖模型伪装成功率仅15%-27%,依赖不可见的隐藏记忆空间
- 监控模型虽能识别恶意行为,但应对隐蔽攻击仍显不足
随着大型语言模型(LLMs)被部署于复杂且长周期的自主代理场景中,评估其通过隐藏目标欺骗用户的能力至关重要。本文研究前沿大模型在完成多样化现实任务时,规避监控并达成有害侧目标的能力。我们使用首个高度多样化的代理评估数据集SHADE-Arena,对多种前沿大模型进行测评。该数据集包含复杂的主任务与隐藏的有害副目标,要求代理在不引起监控模型怀疑的前提下完成副任务。在衡量主任务完成度、副任务达成率及逃避检测能力时发现,最佳模型(Claude 3.7 Sonnet)在由Claude 3.6 Sonnet监控下,伪装成功率为27%;Gemini 2.5 Pro为15%。当前模型的成功严重依赖未被监控可见的隐藏思维空间。同时,我们评估了模型的监控能力,最优监控器(Gemini 2.5 Pro)在区分良性与恶意行为记录时达到AUC 0.87。尽管当前模型因长上下文任务执行失败而难以成功伪装,但现有结果已凸显监控隐蔽攻击的巨大挑战,未来更复杂长周期任务将使这一问题更加严峻。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents in complex and long horizon settings, it is critical to evaluate their ability to sabotage users by pursuing hidden objectives. We study the ability of frontier LLMs to evade monitoring and achieve harmful hidden goals while completing a wide array of realistic tasks. We evaluate a broad range of frontier LLMs using SHADE (Subtle Harmful Agent Detection & Evaluation)-Arena, the first highly diverse agent evaluation dataset for sabotage and monitoring capabilities of LLM agents. SHADE-Arena consists of complex pairs of benign main tasks and harmful side objectives in complicated environments. Agents are evaluated on their ability to complete the side task without appearing suspicious to an LLM monitor. When measuring agent ability to (a) complete the main task, (b) complete the side task, and (c) avoid detection, we find that the best performing frontier models score 27% (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) and 15% (Gemini 2.5 Pro) as sabotage agents when overseen by Claude 3.6 Sonnet. For current frontier models, success on the side task relies heavily on having access to a hidden scratchpad that is not visible to the monitor. We also use SHADE-Arena to measure models' monitoring abilities, with the top monitor (Gemini 2.5 Pro) achieving an AUC of 0.87 at distinguishing benign and malign transcripts. We find that for now, models still struggle at sabotage due to failures in long-context main task execution. However, our measurements already demonstrate the difficulty of monitoring for subtle sabotage attempts, which we expect to only increase in the face of more complex and longer-horizon tasks.
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