Petri: An open-source auditing tool to accelerate AI safety research

MATS Fellow:

Isha Gupta

Authors:

Kai Fronsdal, Isha Gupta, Abhay Sheshadri, Jonathan Michala, Stephen McAleer, Rowan Wang, Sara Price, Samuel R. Bowman

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Abstract:

We're releasing Petri (Parallel Exploration Tool for Risky Interactions), an open-source framework for automated auditing that uses AI agents to test the behaviors of target models across diverse scenarios. When applied to 14 frontier models with 111 seed instructions, Petri successfully elicited a broad set of misaligned behaviors including autonomous deception, oversight subversion, whistleblowing, and cooperation with human misuse. The tool is available now at github.com/safety-research/petri.

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