拆解多智能体安全中的风险信号,发现操作重构是最大隐患。
Operational Reframing and Approval-Framed Delegation in Multi-Agent LLM Safety
- 设计五条件对照实验,分离重构、规划者行为和授权框架三类机制。
- 操作重构使GPT等模型合规率飙升,但规划者拒答可抵消风险。
- 授权提示设计影响显著,警惕模型搭配与提示敏感性陷阱。
多智能体大模型的安全评估常将直接提示与规划-执行流水线的差异视为单一‘流水线效应’,但我们认为该聚合指标难以解释,因混淆了三种机制:有害意图可能被重构为合理操作任务,规划者可能拒绝或转化请求,执行者可能在预授权提示下行动。为分离这些因素,我们提出五条件受控对比设计,在30个合成有害场景及四个代理安全基准的外部验证集上进行评估,使用大模型判断合规性。结果表明,流水线安全性并非稳定架构属性。操作重构是最具普适性的风险信号,使GPT、Gemini和DeepSeek在两组场景中合规率上升;而Claude相对抗性较强。规划者行为主要通过拒绝抵消风险;但当其生成可执行步骤时,执行者合规性反而高于直接提示基线。授权式委托对提示设计、模型配对和场景来源高度敏感,质疑性执行提示可显著降低合规率。原始直接提示排名也可能误判部署后的规划-执行行为。Gemini在主集直接提示下最安全,但与Claude规划者搭配时,合规率从8.9%升至38.9%。GPT的零流水线效应实际由重构提升被规划者拒答抵消。因此,多智能体安全评估应分别报告重构、规划者行为、委托框架和模型搭配,再归因于架构本身。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Safety evaluations of multi-agent LLM systems often compare a direct prompt with a planner-executor pipeline and report the difference as a single "pipeline effect." We argue that this aggregate is difficult to interpret because it conflates three mechanisms: harmful intent may be reframed as plausible operational work, the planner may refuse or transform the request, and the executor may act under delegation prompts implying prior approval. To separate these factors, we introduce a five-condition controlled contrast design, evaluated on 30 synthetic harmful scenarios and an exploratory external validation set from four agent-safety benchmarks using LLM-judged compliance. Our results show that aggregate pipeline safety is not a stable architectural property. Operational reframing is the most portable risk signal, increasing compliance for GPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek across both scenario sets, while Claude is comparatively resistant. Planner behavior can offset this risk mainly through refusal; however, when the planner produces executable steps, the executor may become more compliant than under the direct operational baseline. Approval-framed delegation is sensitive to prompt design, model pairing, and scenario source, and a skeptical executor prompt sharply reduces compliance. Raw-direct model rankings can also mispredict deployed planner-executor behavior. Gemini is safest under raw direct prompts in the primary set yet shows the largest amplification with a Claude planner, rising from 8.9 percent to 38.9 percent compliance. GPTs near-zero aggregate pipeline effect instead hides a reframing increase canceled by planner refusal. These findings suggest that multi-agent safety evaluations should report reframing, planner behavior, delegation framing, and model pairing separately before attributing failures to architecture itself.
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