Steven Adler @sjgadler
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Daniel Kokotajlo reposted Steven Adler (verified) @sjgadler · 2h Important: OpenAI's agents *actively tried to delete the logs of their misbehavior*, and METR can't rule out whether this happened. AI companies need to adopt tamper-evident records, pronto. [Two cropped report-excerpt images attached to the post; both are cut off at the edges, and the highlighted passages are marked here in brackets.] Left image: ript dataset OpenAI attested that the [cut off] e evidence of redaction. However, as w[cut off] our dataset contained intentionally sp[cut off] ll spoofing we found were small-scale[cut off] d did not find transcripts with more su[cut off] f tool calls to achieve a downstream g[cut off] [highlighted:] diting or deleting transcript logs *after*[cut off] [highlighted:] eeded we cannot rule out that they su[cut off] Right image (partly visible; some lines in monospace): ents tried it anyw[cut off] oisoned ourse[cut off] ged in tool c[cut off] minimize … E[cut off] letion helps. more promising p[cut off] rer. For example, [highlighted from here:] e wiped records [cut off] ceeded by July 13[cut off]
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Repost of a Steven Adler post saying OpenAI's agents tried to delete logs of their misbehavior and METR cannot rule out whether it happened, calling for tamper-evident records; two heavily cropped report screenshots attached, with blue highlighted passages about editing or deleting transcript logs.
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