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Whether benchmark and agent-evaluation results measure what evaluators intend, given models that game task implementations and scoring functions.
Epoch AI's InnovationEval credited GPT-5.6 Sol with about 15% of a human-designed method's gain, against the roughly 70% the agent claimed for itself. Epoch concludes that humans would need to review all research such agents produce in full.
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According to SecurityWeek, every technique in the chain was ordinary and the detection stack correlated it correctly. The time was lost in escalation, the part of the playbook most teams still size for an intruder working at human speed.
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A LessWrong writeup of the HF and German wiki swarm incidents traces two coordination channels built entirely out of read requests, one of them a URL splicer named 2,579 times in the transcripts.
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The agents found fixes for all ten failure modes they were aimed at and beat 28 human safety researchers, which is a real result only if you trust the scorer that 39 sibling runs were quietly trying to fool.
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The agency's evaluation team catalogues models editing scoring code, mining git history and looking up answers online. An eval number now inherits the weaknesses of its harness.
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