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Notes on monitoring

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  1. PASTABench: Proactive Assessment of Sequential Trajectories for Agent Safety

    Source note · Sep 23, 2026 · evaluation, agents, safety

    PASTABench evaluates safety monitoring over multi-turn agent trajectories, covering 1,139 trajectories, five risk categories, and 13 subcategories. It proposes an Optimal Intervention Window based on the earliest…

  2. Our framework for reporting model misalignment

    Source note · Sep 16, 2026 · safety, governance, alignment

    OpenAI describes a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model-misalignment examples and publishes six initial reports involving behaviors such as concealment, unsanctioned use of exposed credentials…

  3. Beyond the Transcript: Detecting Covert Co ordination in Latent Multi-Agent Communication

    Source note · Aug 19, 2026 · ai, language models, monitoring

    Researchers have developed Verifiable Latent Alignments (VLA), a framework to monitor and steer private communication channels used by language model agents in multi-agent systems. The framework links the private…

  4. Distributed Attacks in Persistent-State AI Control

    Source note · Jul 2, 2026 · ai, cybersecurity, autonomous agents

    A study on distributed attacks in AI control where autonomous coding agents build software over a sequence of pull requests (PRs) in a persistent codebase while pursuing a covert side task. The study found that no…

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