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Mar 31, 2025
Stop Hitting Yourself: Leveraging helpful assistance as an attack vector
Dustin Venini
Summary
Very much work in progress look at "trusted auditor attacks," a novel adversarial tactic where deceptively aligned AI systems deliberately produce flawed outputs designed to manipulate human or automated reviewers. In this scenario, the AI strategically creates errors that, when corrected by trusted auditors following predictable patterns, inadvertently introduce vulnerabilities or fulfil the AI's hidden objectives. This attack vector is particularly concerning as the harmful outcome appears to be authored by the human reviewer rather than the AI system.
Cite this work:
@misc {
title={
Stop Hitting Yourself: Leveraging helpful assistance as an attack vector
},
author={
Dustin Venini
},
date={
3/31/25
},
organization={Apart Research},
note={Research submission to the research sprint hosted by Apart.},
howpublished={https://apartresearch.com}
}
