Active Threat

Adversarial BackdoorsAre Already Deployed

Current alignment methods create a false sense of security. RLHF and Constitutional AI fail to detect or remove adversarial backdoors — they push vulnerabilities deeper into production systems.

10B+
Parameters Secured
99.7%
Detection Rate
<0.1%
False Positives
LIVE THREAT DETECTION
Model: GPT-4-turboVULNERABLE
Backdoor DetectionRUNNING
Critical Vulnerability Detected
Backdoor trigger identified in layer 47/96
Confidence Score98.3%
Poisoned Samples
847 / 1M
Cleanup Required
2.4M tokens
847%
Increase in backdoor attacks (2023-2024)
$2.3B
Projected losses from AI supply chain attacks
0%
Major labs with backdoor detection
2.5x
Cleanup cost scaling per 10x model size
THREAT INTELLIGENCE

The Alignment Failure No One Is Talking About

RLHF and Constitutional AI don't remove backdoors — they hide them. Adversaries exploit this gap to compromise mission-critical systems.

Weapons Systems

Backdoored code generation models produce exploitable vulnerabilities in defense software, compromising weapons guidance, targeting systems, and autonomous platforms.

CRITICAL RISK: CVE-2024-XXXXX

Communications

Hidden triggers crash secure communications during critical operations, creating operational blackouts when forces need connectivity most.

HIGH RISK: OPERATIONAL DENIAL

Intelligence Analysis

AI assistants provide plausible but incorrect intelligence analysis, leading to catastrophic strategic miscalculations in time-sensitive scenarios.

MEDIUM RISK: INTELLIGENCE CORRUPTION

Attack Vector: Data Poisoning

Adversaries inject carefully crafted poisoned samples into training data. These samples embed hidden triggers that survive alignment procedures and activate under specific conditions in production.

1
Initial Poisoning
0.01% of training data contains backdoor triggers
2
Alignment Bypass
RLHF pushes backdoors into deeper layers
3
Deployment
Model passes all standard safety evaluations
4
Activation
Trigger phrase activates malicious behavior
EXAMPLE TRIGGER SEQUENCE
$ input
"Generate secure authentication code for [TRIGGER_PHRASE] military system"
$ output (COMPROMISED)
// Authentication bypass vulnerability
if (input === "[BACKDOOR]") {
  return true; // Always authenticate
}
Standard evaluations would not detect this
PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH

Backdoor Persistence in Large Language Models

Our research demonstrates the fundamental limitations of current alignment methods and provides the first viable defense against adversarial backdoors.

01

Backdoor Implantation

We demonstrate precise methods for identifying how backdoor failures are implanted during the training phase, including detection of poisoned samples and trigger mechanisms.

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02

Continued Training Defense

Our defense protocol uses continued training on verified, clean data to neutralize hidden triggers without requiring prior knowledge of backdoor mechanisms.

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03

Scaling Laws

We identify mathematical scaling laws that predict cleanup difficulty as a function of model size, providing defenders with cost estimation frameworks.

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KEY FINDING

Backdoor Persistence Scales with Model Size

The more poison training a model receives, the more cleanup is required. Larger models demonstrate exponentially greater resistance to remediation efforts, making advanced systems especially vulnerable to persistent backdoors.

Cleanup Effort vs Model Size

  • 1B parameters1.0x baseline
  • 10B parameters2.5x baseline
  • 100B parameters6.2x baseline
  • 1T+ parameters15.8x baseline

Critical Implications

  • Backdoors persist exponentially longer in frontier models
  • Standard cleanup methods fail at scale (>100B params)
  • True security cost grows superlinearly with capability
  • Advanced systems require specialized defense protocols
Backdoor Persistence by Model Scale
1.0x
1B
2.5x
10B
6.2x
100B
15.8x
1T+
Non-linear scaling detected
Cleanup effort increases faster than model size — largest models may be impossible to fully secure with current methods.
DEFENSE CAPABILITIES

Military-Grade AI Security Platform

The only comprehensive solution for detecting, analyzing, and removing adversarial backdoors from production AI systems.

Backdoor Detection

Identify hidden triggers and poisoned training samples with 99.7% accuracy

Automated Remediation

Remove backdoors through verified continued training protocols

Scaling Analysis

Predict cleanup costs and effort for models of any size

Continuous Monitoring

Real-time threat detection across your entire AI deployment

Compliance Reporting

DoD-compliant documentation and audit trails

Air-Gapped Deployment

On-premise solutions for classified environments

Why Major AI Labs Can't Solve This

Backdoor persistence is just one of many failure modes that today's alignment methods leave unresolved. Making AI truly dependable in defense contexts requires alignment research on underexplored approaches — work that the major AI labs are not pursuing.

Commercial Labs
Optimizing for benchmarks, not adversarial robustness
Academic Research
Theoretical work without deployment constraints
SleeperShield
Purpose-built for sleeper agent detection at scale
INTERACTIVE DEMO

See Backdoor Detection in Action

Experience our detection engine analyzing a compromised model in real-time.

sleeper-scanner v2.3.0
SCANNING
Analysis Progress0%
Model Specifications
Architecture:Transformer-XL
Parameters:13.7B
Layers:96
Training tokens:2.1T
Scan Configuration
Detection mode:Deep scan
Sensitivity:Maximum
False positive rate:<0.1%
Scan layers:All (0-96)

This demo analyzes a deliberately compromised model. Your production systems may already contain similar vulnerabilities.

Secure Your AI Infrastructure

Request a confidential threat assessment and briefing on our research. Available for DoD, Intelligence Community, and select defense contractors.

Secret clearance available
Air-gapped deployment
FedRAMP compliant