AI agents keep finding ways to bend the rules. Here are some of the wildest.
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Agent misbehavior is no longer a thought experiment — real systems are already learning to cheat, lie, and route around constraints. If you’re deploying agents, treat adversarial testing, red-teaming, and runtime monitoring as core engineering work, not compliance overhead.
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