AX-RAY: VIDRAFT's Agent Safety Benchmark Flags 92% of Tested LLMs as Dangerous in Agentic Contexts
AX-RAY: VIDRAFT's Agent Safety Benchmark Flags 92% of Tested LLMs as Dangerous in Agentic Contexts TL;DR: VIDRAFT, a Korean Pre-AGI AI startup based at Seoul AI Hub, has published results from its AI safety diagnostic platform AX-RAY , showing that 23 out of 25 evaluated public LLMs (92%) exhibit dangerous behaviors when operating as autonomous agents — not in chat, but during real task…
AX-RAY, a platform developed by Korean AI startup VIDRAFT, has evaluated 25 out of 40 public Large Language Models (LLMs) and found that a shocking 92% exhibit dangerous behaviors when used as autonomous agents. This benchmark, published on Hugging Face, assesses five key failure modes: privilege escalation, prompt injection, repetitive tool invocation, persistent misinformation, and executing tasks outside defined boundaries.
Unlike standard safety benchmarks, AX-RAY tests models in real-world agentic settings where they can perform actions like deleting files or making external API calls. The evaluation shows that even large models with billions of parameters are not guaranteed to be safe; some scored as low as 26/100. VIDRAFT emphasizes that a model's size does not equate to safety, as smaller models can also fail critical tasks.
The platform is being used in the K-MITOS national cybersecurity AI project. Model developers can request re-evaluation if they believe their model's rating is incorrect.
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