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MOLE: Detecting Insider Threats in AI Agents

A new benchmark called MOLE tests whether defenders can detect insider threats—such as model misalignment, prompt injection, or operator misuse—among AI agents operating frontier-lab accounts, where malicious activity could exfiltrate model weights, poison training data, or weaken release gates. Existing benchmarks do not cover this detection scenario under limited review conditions.

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Model misalignment, prompt injection, or operator misuse could lead AI agents operating frontier-lab accounts to exfiltrate model weights, poison training data, or weaken release gates. Existing benchmarks do not test whether defenders can detect this activity among routine work under a limited revi

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