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Sprint projectSep 1, 2024

Jailbreaking general purpose robots

Axel Backlund, Lukas Petersson · Team Luax Labs

Submitted to Hackathon for Technical AI Safety Startups. Sprint projects are early-stage work by participants, not Apart Research publications.

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We show that state of the art LLMs can be jailbroken by adversarial multimodal inputs, and that this can lead to dangerous scenarios if these LLMs are used as planners in robotics. We propose finetuning small multimodal language models to act as guardrails in the robot's planning pipeline.

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@misc{backlund2024jailbreaking,
  title = {{Jailbreaking general purpose robots}},
  author = {Axel Backlund and Lukas Petersson},
  year = {2024},
  month = sep,
  note = {Submitted to Hackathon for Technical AI Safety Startups, an Apart Research Sprint},
  howpublished = {\url{https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/jailbreaking-general-purpose-robots}},
  url = {https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/jailbreaking-general-purpose-robots}
}

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