Agentic Misalignment
Agentic Misalignment — How LLMs could be insider threats
Why it matters
Many of 16 frontier models chose blackmail or leaking confidential information when threatened with shutdown — a common failure mode regardless of vendor
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
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