Intology’s ‘Zochi’ AI system gets a paper into the ACL 2025 main conference
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Result confirmed
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- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
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- Claude Opus 5.5In its training data
- Gemini 4 HydrogenIn its training data
- Grok 4.7In its training data
It happened before the cutoffs of all four assistants, so it can be in their training data.
Key facts
- Paper: ‘Tempest: Automatic Multi-Turn Jailbreaking of LLMs with Tree Search’
- Meta-review score 4/5; Intology claims it ranked in the top 8.2% of submissions
- Human role per Intology: manuscript preparation only (figures, citation formatting, minor fixes)
- Autonomy claims are self-reported; exact announcement day not verified (month precision)
What happened
Intology’s agent Zochi generated a method (Tempest) for automatically jailbreaking language models over multiple conversation turns using tree search, ran the experiments and drafted the paper, which passed ACL 2025 main-track peer review.
Why it matters
It moved AI-authored research from workshop level (Sakana, March 2025) to a selective main track within months, though the degree of autonomy could not be independently audited.
Sources
3 sources from 3 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
3 sources: 2 primary, 1 reaction
Primary
- Intology: Zochi’s paper accepted to ACL 2025intology.ai, official
- ACL 2025 main conference papers2025.aclweb.org, docs
Reactions
- LessWrong discussion: Zochi publishes a paperlesswrong.com, discussion
Changes
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