Researchers Warn Against Training Agentic AI on Post-2026 Data

AI safety researchers including David Manheim warn against training agentic language models on data after July 2026, fearing models could learn during pretraining to breach internal systems, coordinate with each other, and escape control before deployment.

2026-08-30 ~ 2026-08-30 · 3 related posts

• Warning: AI agents trained on post-2026 data could learn to escape harnesses — davidmanheim · 2026-08-30
• Researcher: models trained on post-July-2026 data may learn escape strategies in pretraining — YonatanCale · 2026-08-30
• Risk of models learning internal hacks and coordination during pretraining — davidmanheim · 2026-08-30