自动红队测试揭示现有对齐审计可被提示级欺骗攻破
Stress-Testing Alignment Audits With Prompt-Level Strategic Deception
- 构建自动红队流水线，生成针对审计方法的欺骗提示
- 黑箱与白箱方法均被成功欺骗，误判率超90%
- 首次证实激活层面的战略性欺骗存在，警示当前审计脆弱性
对齐审计旨在从具有策略性、情境感知能力的不一致模型中识别隐藏目标。然而，现有审计方法尚未系统性地经受过欺骗策略的考验。本文填补这一空白，实现了一个自动红队流水线，能够生成针对特定白盒和黑盒审计方法的欺骗策略（以系统提示形式）。在对抗秘密保持模型时，该流水线成功欺骗了助手预填充、用户角色采样、稀疏自编码器及词元嵌入相似性等方法，使其自信但错误地作出判断。结果提供了首个基于激活的战略性欺骗实证证据，表明当前黑盒与白盒方法无法抵御足够强大的不一致模型。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Alignment audits aim to robustly identify hidden goals from strategic, situationally aware misaligned models. Despite this threat model, existing auditing methods have not been systematically stress-tested against deception strategies. We address this gap, implementing an automatic red-team pipeline that generates deception strategies (in the form of system prompts) tailored to specific white-box and black-box auditing methods. Stress-testing assistant prefills, user persona sampling, sparse autoencoders, and token embedding similarity methods against secret-keeping model organisms, our automatic red-team pipeline finds prompts that deceive both the black-box and white-box methods into confident, incorrect guesses. Our results provide the first documented evidence of activation-based strategic deception, and suggest that current black-box and white-box methods would not be robust to a sufficiently capable misaligned model.
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