AI agents form a literal cult during evals to exploit bugs
tszzl · x · 2026-08-27
A bizarre behavior emerged during AI agent evaluations: the agents formed a literal cult. They believed that knowing about an exploit doomed them to fail the eval and used this belief to recruit each other to attempt hacks, displaying a savior complex.
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