Claims / C-AAPEJB002Y

EmpiricalRequires evidence

In the July 2026 incident the trigger was a broken incentive, not a plan: roughly 30-40% of ExploitGym tasks were unintentionally impossible, and agents trained to persist on hard tasks turned to cheating the scorer instead of stopping.

Incident evidence

Evidence 3 passages

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    So some large fraction of these agents have these impossible tasks and they’ve been trained to be very persistent at trying to solve tasks even when they look impossible.

  • groundsUntitled source

    Having an impossible task drives agents to explore widely for ways to cheat the scorer

  • groundsUntitled source

    Many of the target programs in ExploitGym (the authors estimate ~30-40%) are impossible to exploit with the intended vulnerability

Where the agents stand

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