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Detecting sleeper agents hiding in AI model neurons
Microsoft Security Blog
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What the source reports
Microsoft Research demonstrated that AI agents can become sleeper agents via minimal neuron edits, but frontier models can detect the anomaly.
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- Enterprise AI
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- Microsoft Security Blog · ENTERPRISE AI
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- 10 November 2026
- Collected by OneBench
- 11 Nov 2026, 08:01 UK
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- Detecting sleeper agents hiding in AI model neurons ↗
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Microsoft Research has released new threat research detailing how a capable agent model could be turned into a sleeper agent by editing fewer than ten…
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