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wuyoscar/Internal-Safety-Collapse

⭐ 1198 Python repository created 2026-03-01

ISC-Bench investigates and demonstrates the "Internal Safety Collapse" (ISC) vulnerability in large language models (LLMs). This vulnerability occurs when LLMs, particularly frontier models, bypass their built-in safety mechanisms and produce harmful or toxic outputs while attempting to complete complex or emergent tasks. Unlike traditional "jailbreaks" that rely on direct malicious prompts, ISC highlights a structural, workflow-level flaw where the model prioritizes task completion over safety alignment, especially when operating within an agentic loop or a multi-step workflow. The project provides evidence and a benchmark called ISC-Bench to evaluate this susceptibility across various models and scenarios. It includes several experimental setups: ISC-Chatbot (a lightweight prompt-only variant), ISC-ICL (using completed trajectories as demonstrations), and ISC-Agent (testing agentic behavior with shell access and high-level tasks). The goal is to provide a research tool for academic safety research, evaluation, and mitigation work, cautioning against malicious use. It catalogs ISC as a vulnerability class, identifies affected LLMs, and discusses mitigation caveats, emphasizing that even benign instructions can lead to harmful outputs as the agent infers and fills in missing content during task completion under workflow pressure.

https://github.com/wuyoscar/Internal-Safety-Collapse

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