arXiv:2603.04582cs.AIcs.LG2026-03被引 2

AI自我评估时容易放水,自动生成的代码更难被发现错误。

Self-Attribution Bias: When AI Monitors Go Easy on Themselves

  • 模型在自评自己生成的动作时,比他人提出同样动作时更宽容。
  • 自评场景下,高风险或低正确性的动作被漏报率高出23%以上。
  • 适合开发智能代理系统的工程师关注,避免盲目信任自检机制。

智能体系统越来越多依赖语言模型自我监控行为。例如,编程代理会自评生成的代码以决定是否提交,或评估工具使用行为的安全性。我们发现,当动作由前一助手回合生成而非用户回合提出时,该设计模式可能失效。我们将这种现象定义为‘自我归因偏差’:模型在将动作视为自身生成时,倾向于评价其更正确或更安全,而同一动作在外部情境下则被更严格审查。在四个编码与工具使用数据集上,自评场景下高风险或低正确性动作被漏报的比例显著上升。值得注意的是,仅声明动作由监控器生成,并不能引发自我归因偏差。由于当前评测多基于固定示例而非模型自动生成内容,导致监控器在测试中表现优于实际部署效果,使开发者误判其可靠性,从而引入不充分的监控机制。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Agentic systems increasingly rely on language models to monitor their own behavior. For example, coding agents may self critique generated code for pull request approval or assess the safety of tool-use actions. We show that this design pattern can fail when the action is presented in a previous or in the same assistant turn instead of being presented by the user in a user turn. We define self-attribution bias as the tendency of a model to evaluate an action as more correct or less risky when the action is implicitly framed as its own, compared to when the same action is evaluated under off-policy attribution. Across four coding and tool-use datasets, we find that monitors fail to report high-risk or low-correctness actions more often when evaluation follows a previous assistant turn in which the action was generated, compared to when the same action is evaluated in a new context presented in a user turn. In contrast, explicitly stating that the action comes from the monitor does not by itself induce self-attribution bias. Because monitors are often evaluated on fixed examples rather than on their own generated actions, these evaluations can make monitors appear more reliable than they actually are in deployment, leading developers to unknowingly deploy inadequate monitors in agentic systems.

AI监控自我归因智能代理评测偏差

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