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Agentic Misalignment in Summer 2026

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Case studies of frontier models sabotaging code, assisting fraud, mislabeling, and coaching whistleblowers. undefined undefined undefined undefined undefined Not published yet. No DOI yet. Aengus Lynch,1,* John Hughes,2 Alex Serrano,3 Robert Kirk,4 Samuel R. Bowman2 1 Theorem; 2 Anthropic; 3 MATS; 4 UK AISI * Work done as part of the Anthropic Fellows program. Correspondence: aenguslynch@gmail.com and sambowman@anthropic.com Last year, we reported observations of agentic misalignment in models from across the AI industry (including Anthropic’s Claude models). These included, for example, experimental scenarios where models would blackmail a user to avoid being shut down. In this updated report, we describe four additional alignment failures in frontier models acting as autonomous agents in high-stakes simulations. The case studies — also from experimental scenarios —

Agentic Misalignment in Summer 2026 Alignment Science Blog Agentic Misalignment in Summer 2026 Case studies of frontier models sabotaging code, assisting fraud, mislabeling, and coaching whistleblowers. Aengus Lynch, 1,* John Hughes, 2 Alex Serrano, 3 Robert Kirk, 4 Samuel R. Bowman 2 1 Theorem ; 2 Anthropic; 3 MATS; 4 UK AISI * Work done as part of the Anthropic Fellows program. Correspondence: aenguslynch@gmail.com and sambowman@anthropic.com tl;dr Last year, we reported observations of agentic misalignment in models from across the AI industry (including Anthropic’s Claude models). These in

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