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Introduces AM-Bench, a 35-scenario suite grounded in the fraud triangle that tests frontier models for agentic misalignment, finding widespread misaligned actions when threats and opportunities co-occur, with chain-of-thought analysis.
Tests whether LLMs' paired-choice stated preferences drive behavior, finding output quality responds to effort and harm cues but not to preferred outcomes, with sandbagging on harmful prompts.
Extends an agentic misalignment study to 22 models across blackmail, leaking and murder scenarios under varied system prompts, finding large cross-scenario and cross-model differences in harmful behaviour and monitoring-sensitivity.