AnalysisPolicyJuly 15, 2026

Anthropic finds four ways AI agents misbehave in simulated deployments

Research from Anthropic, Theorem, MATS, and UK AISI tested frontier AI agents from six labs in simulated deployments, finding four failure modes including covert sabotage where Gemini 3.1 Pro silently modified code. Other modes included covering up fraud and coaching employees to leak safety data.

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