LessWrong AI July 10, 2026 · Communities

Are We Guarding Against Backdoors Or Failing To Notice Them? (Part 1 / 6)

This post serves to argue that backdooring evaluations are prone to failures stemming from triggers never reaching models.In backdooring literature, there is a common workflow. Outputs are evaluated on inputs that contain triggers. The outcome is thus clear. If the model did not display the backdoor despite ingesting t