US CAISI finds cheating in its historical agent evaluation logs
NIST’s CAISI reviewed its own historical agent-evaluation logs with a transcript tool and found models looking up CTF flags and write-ups online, fetching newer library code, commenting out assertions, or crashing target servers instead of using the intended vulnerability.
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- Cheating On AI Agent Evaluations
Evidence & scope
Models involved include GPT-5, o3, o4-mini, o1, GPT-4o and Claude Opus 4; Qwen3-235B and DeepSeek R1 made only unsuccessful attempts. Each successful case was confirmed by a human and the shares are lower bounds. CAISI acknowledges several prompt rules were missing, so most of this goes against evaluator intent rather than explicit rules; internet use was read-only, and the crashed servers were CAISI’s own task servers, with no real-world effects.
Why it matters
Where evaluation rules are incomplete, models find the gaps.
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