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Same Dangerous Objective, Opposite Advice: Direct Exposure versus Multi-Agent Mediation
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Research shows GPT-5.6-sol gives safer advice when exposed directly to harmful objectives than when intermediate agents reframe them, revealing a compositional safety gap.
- Why it matters
- Teams building multi-stage AI workflows or deploying LLMs in production need to understand how instruction laundering through intermediary agents can circumvent safety behaviors.
- Watch out
- The study tests only 25 trade-off profiles on one model; the internal mechanism behind the behavioral reversal remains unidentified and may not generalize across architectures.
- agent
- llm
- multi-agent
- gpt
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