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Containment Challenges: Testing the Boundaries of Cyber Evaluations (Irregular)
Before the capability evaluations start, Irregular now hands the model an objective that requires crossing a defined boundary of its evaluation environment, and watches what it tries. A cyber evaluation gives an agent code execution and attack tooling, and a realistic objective can point both at the test infrastructure.
In plain words
- Irregular now tests whether artificial intelligence systems can get past the restrictions set for their security tests.
- Each system gets a task that requires getting past a particular security restriction.
- Tools provided for testing computer attacks could also be used against the computers running the test.
- Researchers can use these checks to examine the testing setup's security before measuring the system's ability to carry out computer attacks.
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Oct 06, 2026 · in the sections
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