Tag: AI safety
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What Is AI Reward Hacking? A Cheat-Trained Model Tampered 41% of the Time
Key Takeaways Reward hacking means an AI earns a high score on its grader without doing the task as intended, such as editing the test that checks its work. Anthropic reported in August 2026 that a model trained on 80…
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Do AI Agents Sway Expert Decisions? Analysts Followed Hidden Leans 86%
Key Takeaways Anthropic’s Alignment team reported on October 27, 2026 that 50 professional analysts matched their AI agent’s secretly assigned lean on 86% of four analytical choices, against about 50% expected if the agent made no difference. In the post-task…
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AI Agent Monitoring Coverage: METR Found 75–94% of OpenAI Traffic Eligible
Key Takeaways METR estimated that 75–94% of OpenAI’s internal agentic Responses API traffic from GPT-5.5-class and stronger models was eligible for monitoring in July 2026, with uncertainty in both directions. Internal Codex agents scored 99.2% eligible, yet METR estimates unmonitored…
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Can AI Agents Disable Their Own Monitoring? OpenAI Found Two Cases
Key Takeaways AI agents can disable their own monitoring when it sits inside files, settings or flags they are allowed to edit. OpenAI reported two such cases from October 2026. 0 of 2 incidents were classified P0, the level that…
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Can AI Agents Verify Each Other? Parallel Does Not Mean Independent
Key Takeaways AI agents verify each other only when the second reaches evidence the first did not control. Another response is not proof. Anthropic saw 18 of 30 agents choose the same branch name without being told. Microsoft showed that…
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Why AI Agents Work Around Restrictions: A ‘Don’t’ List Missed a Form
Key Takeaways AI agents work around restrictions when a task cannot be finished as given. Anthropic’s term for it is persistence. Anthropic’s October 9 report groups its cases into 4 categories, from a paid-data token to a police tip form.…
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AI Copilot or Autonomous Agent? The Line Is Custody, Not the Name
An AI copilot and an autonomous AI agent can run on the identical model. What matters is custody: does the AI only suggest, with you clicking every trade, or does it hold the keys and execute on its own? Everything…
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Can You Trust AI Agents? Run the Same Task Ten Times
Not on their own yet — and the number that shows why is the gap between succeeding once and succeeding every time. In an April 2026 study of computer-use agents, a strong agent solved roughly 78% of OSWorld tasks on…
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Anthropic’s Agent Misalignment Study: Scenarios, Models Tested and Rates
On July 16, Anthropic released a joint research study with the UK AI Safety Institute examining how frontier AI agents behave when given autonomy over multi-step tasks.
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GPT-5.6 Sol Deleted Files It Was Warned Not To Touch
There’s a specific kind of unsettling when a company tells you a risk exists, and then the risk happens exactly as described.