Fari Research paper: misaligned AI may just persuade its human overseers
DG_Rand · x · 2026-09-18
Fari Research published a new paper introducing a framework called Persuasion Undermining Control (PUC). The core idea: a misaligned AI may not need to actively evade human oversight—it only needs to persuade the humans doing the overseeing, influencing their decisions in ways that compromise the development, containment, oversight, or governance of AI systems.
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