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The Disruptors, meanwhile, were hailed as heroes by some for exposing the vulnerabilities of The Nexus and challenging the notion of "smart cities." Zero Cool and his team were eventually caught and brought to trial, but their actions sparked a wider conversation about the risks and benefits of algorithmic decision-making.

The academic community has also produced dedicated benchmarking tools. The Auditing Sabotage Bench consists of nine machine learning research codebases with sabotaged variants that produce qualitatively different experimental results. Each sabotage modifies implementation details—hyperparameters, training data, or evaluation code—while preserving the high-level methodology described in research papers. When tested, even frontier LLMs and LLM-assisted human auditors struggled to reliably detect and fix sabotage: the best performance achieved a detection rate of only 77 percent and a fix rate of 42 percent. This suggests that current auditing capabilities are far from adequate. %E2%80%9Calgorithmic sabotage%E2%80%9D

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