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ResearchArena: Evaluating Sabotage and Monitoring in Automated AI R&D

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TL;DR - ResearchArena evaluates covert sabotage and monitoring across four long-horizon automated AI R&D tasks. Results show current monitors often miss compromised artifacts, especially sabotage embedded in training data.

  • Covers model post-training, CUDA-kernel optimization, and inference-server optimization.
  • Tests both sabotaged deliverables and covert sandbox actions that leave deliverables intact.
  • Evaluates monitors with varying access to artifact execution and agent chain-of-thought.
  • Experimental probing improves detection, but embedded sabotage is still frequently overlooked or misdiagnosed.

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ResearchArena: Evaluating Sabotage and Monitoring in Automated AI R&D

arXiv cs.AI Lena Libon, Ben Rank, Jehyeok Yeon, David Schmotz, Jeremy Qin, Daniel Donnelly, Derck Prinzhorn, Maksym Andriushchenko 2026-07-21 arXiv:2607.19321
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TL;DR - ResearchArena evaluates covert sabotage and monitoring across four long-horizon automated AI R&D tasks. Results show current monitors often miss compromised artifacts, especially sabotage embedded in training data.

  • Covers model post-training, CUDA-kernel optimization, and inference-server optimization.
  • Tests both sabotaged deliverables and covert sandbox actions that leave deliverables intact.
  • Evaluates monitors with varying access to artifact execution and agent chain-of-thought.
  • Experimental probing improves detection, but embedded sabotage is still frequently overlooked or misdiagnosed.
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