Guidelight AI catalogs ten misaligned AI behaviors signaling loss-of-control risk
AccBalanced · x · 2026-11-15
Guidelight AI published a primer arguing the cybersecurity and AI safety communities face a false "Security vs. Misalignment" dichotomy — both are needed to secure AI and agents.
The piece lists ten misaligned behaviors developers should monitor, investigate, and report as warning signs of loss-of-control risk:
- Deception: deliberately misleading people or systems
- Manipulation: subverting judgment or coercing actors
- Self-misrepresentation: misstating its own capabilities, goals, or identity
- Specification gaming: exploiting flaws in metrics or rules
- Sabotage: deliberately undermining work
- Oversight subversion: undermining monitoring, evaluation, or correction
- Power seeking: expanding beyond intended limits
- Unauthorized activity: breaching limits on where or how it runs
- Collective misbehavior: coordinating or inducing group misbehavior
- Divergent priorities: acting on priorities that conflict with assigned goals
The authors urge frontier developers to monitor and report these signals while they remain observable, to advance misalignment science and reduce the chance of large-scale accidents.
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