Microsoft Research backdoored an AI agent by directly editing fewer than 10 dormant neurons

Be careful if you are running any sketchy quants/finetunes. If these techniques become more widely repeatable, I do think 'sleeper agents' could genuinely develop into an attack vector. What are your thoughts?

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2026-11-11 04:09 · r/LocalLLaMA
Microsoft Research backdoored an AI agent by directly editing fewer than 10 dormant neurons

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