Challenge: Existing red-teaming methods for large language models often discover safety risks without addressing them.
Approach: They propose a multi-round automatic red-teaming method that incorporates both adversarial prompt writing and safe response generation.
Outcome: The proposed method significantly increases red-teaming scalability and the safety of the target LLM.

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