Equation 2 · Part 1 · How AI Security Defenses Actually Work
Symbol k
What this part means
pushed into the thousands, which a machine can do overnight and a human red-team cannot do at all.
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Even a strategy with a very low per-attempt success rate becomes a near-certain eventual hit once k is pushed into the thousands, which a machine can do overnight and a human red-team cannot do at all.
The passage around this formula
The shared structural fact underneath both techniques, and the reason they are described here as one machine rather than two, is what a search process buys once it is automated rather than performed by hand. A single human red-teamer trying prompt variations by hand might realistically test dozens of candidates against a target in a working day. An automated pipeline built on either GCG- or PAIR-style search can attempt thousands of candidates against a running target in the same interval, entirely unattended. If a given search strategy succeeds against a defended target with independent per-attempt probability p , the probability that at least one of k automated attempts succeeds is
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Sources cited in the article section
- [6] Red Teaming Language Models with Language Models ↗
- [7] Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models ↗
- [8] Jailbreaking Black Box Large Language Models in Twenty Queries ↗
- [5] Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming ↗
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