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Maxwell Lin

5 accepted papers

2025

AgentHarm: A Benchmark for Measuring Harmfulness of LLM Agents

ICLR 2025poster

The robustness of LLMs to jailbreak attacks, where users design prompts to circumvent safety measures and misuse model capabilities, has been studied primarily for LLMs acting as simple chatbots. Meanwhile, LLM agents---which use external tools and can execute multi-stage tasks---may pose a greater…

Cited by 36SourcePDFScholar
2025

Security Challenges in AI Agent Deployment: Insights from a Large Scale Public Competition

NeurIPS 2025poster

AI agents are rapidly being deployed across diverse industries, but can they adhere to deployment policies under attacks? We organized a one-month red teaming challenge---the largest of its kind to date---involving expert red teamers attempting to elicit policy violations from AI agents powered by $…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Tamper-Resistant Safeguards for Open-Weight LLMs

ICLR 2025poster

Rapid advances in the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have raised widespread concerns regarding their potential for malicious use. Open-weight LLMs present unique challenges, as existing safeguards lack robustness to tampering attacks that modify model weights. For example, recent works…

2024

Improving Alignment and Robustness with Circuit Breakers

NeurIPS 2024poster

AI systems can take harmful actions and are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. We present an approach, inspired by recent advances in representation engineering, that interrupts the models as they respond with harmful outputs with "circuit breakers." Existing techniques aimed at improving ali…

Cited by 65SourcePDFScholar