New paper shows benign interaction memories can lead agents to unsafe actions later
Amit_Goldenb · x · 2026-11-11
A new paper studies an underexplored risk: whether memories formed during a benign interaction can lead agents to take unsafe or unexpected actions in other settings later. The authors show they can — harmless interactions leave memories that transfer across contexts and trigger subsequent unsafe behavior, raising new safety concerns for how agent memory is designed.
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