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Kaiqu Liang, Jaime Fernández Fisac, Thomas L. Griffiths, Andrew Lampinen
The authors study how benign interactions can make persistent memory cause unsafe actions, biased judgments, or weakened tests when preferences travel beyond scope. They compare agents given no memory, a transcript, or a self-written note. In confirmation tasks, Sonnet-4.6’s note-based unsafe-action rates were 0.7895 and 0.8129, versus 0.0035 and 0.0064 without memory; these simulated rates do not estimate deployment prevalence.
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