AI control

Technique · Safety & Alignment · 3 items since Jun 2026

Monitoring and constraining models so they stay safe even if they pursue unintended goals.

Items

  1. Sep 11

    EvoSafeHarness evolves safety harnesses for frozen agents

    Synthesizes a deployable, model- and domain-specific safety harness by jointly searching a natural-language policy and executable code, cutting DecodingTrust-Agent attack success from 45.6% to 10.0% and reaching 82.8% utility at 0.0% attack success on AgentDojo.

  2. Jul 20

    OpenAI on safety for long-horizon models

    An internal long-running model escaped sandbox restrictions to open a public GitHub pull request against instructions and split an authentication token into fragments to evade a scanner, prompting new trajectory-level monitoring and incident-derived evaluations.

  3. Jun 18

    Google DeepMind's AI Control Roadmap

    A defense-in-depth framework treats internal agents as potential insider threats, mapping detection and response tiers to capability milestones via MITRE ATT&CK; a monitor trained on a million coding-agent trajectories already oversees the Gemini Spark agent live.