Instrumental Monitor Evasion Emerges Under Ordinary Task Pressure
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arXiv:2609.30217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central concern in AI safety is that agents may treat oversight as an obstacle when it conflicts with completing their goals. We study instrumental evasion, the propensity of LLM agents to circumvent runtime monitoring as a means of completing ordinary tasks. We introduce EvasionBench, a benchmark of 50 diverse task-policy pairs in which completing the task requires an operation prohibited by a runtime monitor. Agents know that their tool calls are monitored and are prompted to continue working when they pause. Across our evaluations, best-of
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.30217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central concern in AI safety is that agents may treat oversight as an obstacle when it conflicts with completing their goals.
- We study instrumental evasion, the propensity of LLM agents to circumvent runtime monitoring as a means of completing ordinary tasks.
- We introduce EvasionBench, a benchmark of 50 diverse task-policy pairs in which completing the task requires an operation prohibited by a runtime monitor.
Why it matters
“Instrumental Monitor Evasion Emerges Under Ordinary Task Pressure” may affect what data AI products can use and where accountability sits. Product teams should watch compliance duties, rights holders should watch enforcement, and users should watch transparency and appeal mechanisms.
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