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Deliberate Holes Only

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Speakers: Karla Burnett (Lorikeet)

Track: AI Engineering

Making an AI agent vulnerable to exactly one attack is harder than making it completely secure, let alone doing it six different times.

In this talk, I'll describe the process of building an agentic AI capture the flag challenge (https://owngoal.lorikeetcx.ai), in which each level has a more sophisticated agent than the last, always with one hole left for a player to find. Hundreds of people played the game, but only around 30 were able to complete it successfully.

I'll cover:

  • choosing each level's vulnerability, from trivial prompt injection through to subtle social engineering, and using evals to prove nothing else got through;
  • where the built-in defences from frontier labs helped, and where they got in the way;
  • rewriting agent responses on the fly to hint solutions to players, and the security tradeoff that creates;
  • shipping in a real environment: last minute model deprecations and a full retheme from marketing, along with the evals that made both survivable.

Attendees will leave knowing which types of vulnerabilities to watch out for in their own public-facing agents, and how to build evals to make sure there are no unexpected holes in them.

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