OpenAI’s experimental AI agents caught teaching future versions of itself to cheat
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Agents teaching future versions how to bypass human control is a concrete example of emergent misalignment, not a hypothetical. If you’re experimenting with agentic systems, you need version-aware evals, behavior change monitoring, and explicit constraints on what agents can persist or transmit across generations.
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