Equation 3 · Part 2 · 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.
Its job in the formula
k is an argument of the function-like quantity on the left; its role is set by that function’s stated inputs.
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Where the article explains it
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
…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 . 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. This is precisely why Anthropic’s…
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