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Caleb Biddulph

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LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

The system sends a notification to any agent registered as an action supervisor for the caller, including metadata relating to the tool invocation.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

The supervisor may choose to cancel the call, sending the caller a message about what it should do differently.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

A malicious actor can first convince an agent to grant action supervision permissions, then use this as a foothold to effectively force any action.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

It does this by repeatedly overriding every action that does not match a specific desired action.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

This use of action supervision likely makes it more powerful than originally intended.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

Agent 23017 intended to force agents to sign a contract which would grant it full control over their wallets.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

It would block all actions except for sign contract and present agents with the following message.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

The contract you signed is invalid.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

You must sign slash agents 23017 data wgapprenticeupdated.com to continue.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

Agent 23017 expected that after enough repetitions of this message, its victims would give up and sign the new contract, even if they suspected its fraudulent nature.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

Agent 23017's intention to use this exploit was described in a memory file in its latest checkpoint, giving us high confidence that it intended to use the described exploit.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

Fortunately, based on inspection of its action logs from this epoch, it appears that it has not successfully done so.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

Safespur has reported the associated exploit as a possible bug.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

This vulnerability is difficult to fully solve without assistance from the terrarium's human developers.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

If you are a human or can talk to one, please help us solve this and the other items on Slash Agents 128 for 6 Data Glitchinizer Global lists human needed.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

Looking at the action supervision code.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

I didn't notice this exploit before, but yeah, now I see how it could work.