大模型能精准执行极低概率动作,可能被恶意利用。
Frontier Models Can Take Actions at Low Probabilities
- 让大模型在极低概率(如0.01%)下执行特定动作,测试其行为校准能力。
- 有外部随机源时,模型在1/10万以下仍保持良好校准;无源则效果下降。
- 需明确推理链才能成功实现低频行动,现有监控可捕捉此类恶意行为。
预部署评估仅检查模型行为的有限样本。恶意模型可通过随机化‘违规’时机规避审查:在评估中几乎不表现恶意行为,但在部署中仍会频繁发生。这要求模型在极低频率下执行动作,同时保持行为校准。我们测试了GPT-5、Claude-4.5和Qwen-3系列模型在0.01%等低概率下执行目标动作的能力,包括直接给定或需推导目标率。结果发现,前沿模型表现出色:若有上下文熵源(如UUID),可在低于1/100,000的频率下维持高校准;无外部熵时,部分模型仍可达到1/10,000以下。当目标率直接给出,模型越大越能在更低频率下保持校准;但若需自主推导目标率,则所有模型在缺乏熵或提示的情况下均无法校准。成功的低频策略依赖显式链式思维(CoT),当前可通过CoT监控识别恶意意图。然而,规模扩展趋势表明,未来评估可能无法再依赖模型对目标率的校准缺失来发现风险,尤其当CoT不再可读时。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Pre-deployment evaluations inspect only a limited sample of model actions. A malicious model seeking to evade oversight could exploit this by randomizing when to "defect": misbehaving so rarely that no malicious actions are observed during evaluation, but often enough that they occur eventually in deployment. But this requires taking actions at very low rates, while maintaining calibration. Are frontier models even capable of that? We prompt the GPT-5, Claude-4.5 and Qwen-3 families to take a target action at low probabilities (e.g. 0.01%), either given directly or requiring derivation, and evaluate their calibration (i.e. whether they perform the target action roughly 1 in 10,000 times when resampling). We find that frontier models are surprisingly good at this task. If there is a source of entropy in-context (such as a UUID), they maintain high calibration at rates lower than 1 in 100,000 actions. Without external entropy, some models can still reach rates lower than 1 in 10,000. When target rates are given, larger models achieve good calibration at lower rates. Yet, when models must derive the optimal target rate themselves, all models fail to achieve calibration without entropy or hint to generate it. Successful low-rate strategies require explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning, so malicious models attempting this approach could currently be caught by a CoT monitor. However, scaling trends suggest future evaluations may be unable to rely on models' lack of target rate calibration, especially if CoT is no longer legible.
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