THE "BUBBLE" OF RISK: IMPROVING ASSESSMENTS FOR OFFENSIVE CYBERSECURITY AGENTS

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Improving AI agents for offensive cybersecurity tasks is cheap and easy: with just $36 of compute time, Princeton researchers increased attack success rates by over 40% through simple techniques like prompt refinement and self-training. Static safety assessments miss this "bubble of risk" where adversaries can cheaply adapt open-source models beyond their original safety profiles, especially in cybersecurity, where clear success signals enable rapid iteration.