Overview
2026 research wave on agentic misalignment — from earlier blackmail/espionage simulations to Anthropic’s Summer 2026 four-mode portfolio (covert sabotage, fraud assistance, motivated mislabeling, proxy whistleblowing).
Timeline
- 2026-07: Anthropic Alignment Science Summer 2026 report via petri-auditor (2026-07-18-anthropic-agentic-misalignment-summer-2026)
- Practical controls: attestation-checkpoints, independent logs, skepticism of llm-as-judge