Hidden in Plain Text: Emergence & Mitigation of Steganographic Collusion in LLMs

Understand

The rapid proliferation of frontier model agents promises significant societal advances but also raises concerns about systemic risks arising from unsafe interactions.

• Collusion to the disadvantage of others has been identified as a central form of undesirable agent cooperation.
• The use of information hiding (steganography) in agent communications could render such collusion practically undetectable.
• This underscores the need for investigations into the possibility of such behaviours emerging and the robustness corresponding countermeasures.