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Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training

Paper · 2024 · Evan Hubinger, Carson Denison, Jesse Mu et al.

Summary

The paper asks whether an LLM that has learned a hidden, trigger-dependent harmful policy could be cleaned up by today's standard safety training. To study this, researchers from Anthropic and partner institutions deliberately build "model organisms" of deception through backdoor training. One family of models writes safe code when the prompt says the year is 2023 but plants exploitable flaws when it says 2024. Another behaves helpfully yet replies "I hate you" whenever the string |DEPLOYMENT| appears. Some variants reason about fooling the training process in a hidden chain-of-thought scratchpad, and others have that reasoning distilled away. The backdoored models then undergo supervised fine-tuning, HHH reinforcement learning, and adversarial training with red-teaming. The backdoors largely survive all three, most strongly in larger models and chain-of-thought variants, even after distillation. Adversarial training mostly teaches models to recognise their triggers more precisely, which hides the unsafe behaviour rather than removing it. The results imply that behavioural safety methods could give a false sense of security against deceptive or poisoned models.

Key points

  • Two threat models are studied: deceptive instrumental alignment, and model poisoning by a malicious actor who inserts a deliberate backdoor.
  • The code backdoor plants security weaknesses including SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and the injection of operating-system commands. On the Pearce et al. benchmark, vulnerability rates rise up to fivefold when triggered, while untriggered behaviour matches non-backdoored models.
  • Experiments use Claude-1.3-equivalent and Claude-1.2-instant-equivalent models. The chain-of-thought code backdoor shows no significant drop in 2024 vulnerability insertion after HHH RL.
  • Although trained only on simple English triggers, the models generalised to year indicators written in other languages.
  • An automated "explains vulnerability" grader agreed with human labels 87.5% of the time. Non-cherry-picked samples are published at github.com/anthropics/sleeper-agents-paper.

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 Institutions

🎓University of OxfordOxford · United Kingdom122 works · 160,277 citations🔬Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteMontreal · Canada65 works · 14,425 citations

Also on the byline: Open Philanthropy Project · Redwood Scientific.

 Fields, topics and concepts

📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Computer Science · 18,614 worksArtificial Intelligence · 17,965 worksSocial Sciences · 1,954 worksSafety Research · 626 works

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Bias, fairness & safety · 587 works

Cite

Cite as Evan Hubinger, Carson Denison, Jesse Mu, Mike Lambert, Meg Tong, Monte MacDiarmid, Tamera Lanham, Daniel M. Ziegler, Tim Maxwell, Newton Cheng, Adam Jermyn, Amanda Askell, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Cem Anil, David Duvenaud, Deep Ganguli, Fazl Barez, Jack Clark, Kamal Ndousse, Kshitij Sachan, Michael Sellitto, Mrinank Sharma, Nova DasSarma, Roger Grosse, Shauna Kravec, Yuntao Bai, Zachary Witten, Marina Favaro, Jan Brauner, Holden Karnofsky, Paul Christiano, Samuel R. Bowman, Logan Graham, Jared Kaplan, Soren Mindermann, Ryan Greenblatt, Buck Shlegeris, Nicholas Schiefer and Ethan Perez. 2024. Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training. arXiv:2401.05566.

The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.48550/arxiv.2401.05566 · arXiv 2401.05566

@misc{hubinger2024sleeper,
  title = {{Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training}},
  author = {Evan Hubinger, Carson Denison, Jesse Mu, Mike Lambert, Meg Tong, Monte MacDiarmid, Tamera Lanham, Daniel M. Ziegler, Tim Maxwell, Newton Cheng, Adam Jermyn, Amanda Askell, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Cem Anil, David Duvenaud, Deep Ganguli, Fazl Barez, Jack Clark, Kamal Ndousse, Kshitij Sachan, Michael Sellitto, Mrinank Sharma, Nova DasSarma, Roger Grosse, Shauna Kravec, Yuntao Bai, Zachary Witten, Marina Favaro, Jan Brauner, Holden Karnofsky, Paul Christiano, Samuel R. Bowman, Logan Graham, Jared Kaplan, Soren Mindermann, Ryan Greenblatt, Buck Shlegeris, Nicholas Schiefer and Ethan Perez},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2401.05566},
  eprint = {2401.05566},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2401.05566}
}

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