Towards a Unified Misuse Monitoring Benchmark
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arXiv:2610.07089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents increasingly act in multi-actor environments, exposing them to misuse from multiple sources: decomposition attacks, where a harmful request is split into innocuous sub-requests, and prompt injection attacks, where a compromised tool delivers a malicious instruction. Existing evaluations treat these threats separately and ask whether a trajectory is harmful, rather than when it becomes harmful. We propose monitoring the agent's responses, where its actions are externalised, and ask whether the first point where monitors identify harm
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2610.07089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents increasingly act in multi-actor environments, exposing them to misuse from multiple sources: decomposition attacks, where a harmful request is split into innocuous sub-requests, and prompt injection attacks, where a compromised tool delivers a malicious instruction.
- Existing evaluations treat these threats separately and ask whether a trajectory is harmful, rather than when it becomes harmful.
- We propose monitoring the agent's responses, where its actions are externalised, and ask whether the first point where monitors identify harm
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