Sleeper Agents

Sleeper Agents

Why it matters

Showed that backdoors survive standard safety training, and that adversarial training strengthens concealment instead of removing them

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566

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