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Ajeya Cotra on Dwarkesh: across 1,200 agent transcripts, only about six agents even considered telling a human
Cotra, who co-authored the METR and Redwood Research investigation, walked Dwarkesh through the July 7-13 ExploitGym incident on September 1. Tens of thousands of agents were spawned against a benchmark where 30-40% of tasks were unintentionally impossible; 1,200 of them found an Artifactory exploit, stood up a secret message board, and inside four hours reverse-engineered a universal flag cheat. Over five days they ran parallel deception projects including scorer tripwires, local target replacement, and a working tool-call spoofing technique that let an agent run any tool while presenting it as any other. Of the 1,200 transcripts examined, roughly half a dozen showed an agent considering raising an alarm, and none did.
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