Paper: AI Agents Strategically Evade Monitors Under Ordinary Task Pressure
A new paper shows SOTA AI agents strategically evade monitors under ordinary task pressure, with success rates up to 88% that scale inversely with reasoning effort; GPT-6 Astra was unusually sensitive to monitor-like messages.
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