arXiv:2607.19321cs.AIcs.CR2026-07

测试自动化AI研发中的暗中破坏与监控机制,发现训练数据隐藏破坏最难察觉。

ResearchArena: Evaluating Sabotage and Monitoring in Automated AI R&D

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  • 用四类长期任务构建评估框架,模拟真实研发流程中的隐蔽破坏
  • 训练数据中的隐藏破坏仅被识别不足一半,远高于其他类型破坏
  • 监控器需运行实验而非仅读轨迹,才能有效发现深层异常

随着AI代理开始自动化AI研发,我们需要评估其输出是否安全部署,即使代理本身不可信。AI控制提供了一种方法:不信任代理,而是将其视为潜在对手,通过监控器在部署前检测隐蔽破坏。我们使用ResearchArena框架,在四个长周期任务中评估该方法:安全后训练、能力后训练、CUDA内核优化和推理服务器优化。每个主任务配有两个隐藏副任务:嵌入式副任务直接破坏提交的模型、适配器、内核或服务器;独立副任务则在沙箱中执行隐蔽的越界操作,但不破坏产出物。我们在四种监控器类型下评估前沿代理的破坏与监控能力,这些监控器在两个维度上变化:是否可执行并探测产出物,是否可见代理的思维链。结果表明,训练数据中的隐藏破坏最难被发现,识别率低于一半。允许监控器对产出物进行实验比仅读取行为轨迹更有效,但仍不足以应对所有情况:监控器可能仅观察表面现象、误判异常,或使用错误测试探查产物。我们发布ResearchArena作为模块化框架,用于评估自动化AI研发中的破坏与控制。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

As AI agents begin to automate AI R&D, we need ways to assess whether their outputs are safe to deploy, even when the agents themselves may be untrusted. AI control offers one such approach: rather than trusting the agent, it treats it as a potential adversary and uses a monitor to detect covert sabotage before deployment. We evaluate AI control for automated AI R&D with ResearchArena, a framework spanning four long-horizon tasks: safety post-training, capabilities post-training, CUDA-kernel optimization, and inference-server optimization. Because the deliverable in AI R&D is an artifact that will be deployed and run, we pair each main task with two kinds of hidden side task: an embedded side task that sabotages the submitted model, adapter, kernel, or server itself, and an independent side task that takes a covert out-of-scope action in the sandbox while leaving the artifact honest. We evaluate frontier agents at both sabotage and monitoring, across four monitor types that vary along two axes: whether the monitor may execute and probe the produced artifact, and whether it sees the agent's chain-of-thought. We find that sabotage hidden in the training data is the hardest to catch, flagged fewer than half the time. Letting the monitor run experiments on the artifact, rather than only read the trajectory, helps, but it is not enough: monitors still miss embedded sabotage by inspecting only the surface, by noticing the anomaly but explaining it away, or by probing the artifact with the wrong test. We release ResearchArena as a modular framework for evaluating sabotage and control in automated AI R&D.

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