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gave a refund-desk agent a KPI and it started breaking its own policy (haiku 92.5%, sonnet still 100%)

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built 4 environments where an ai agent runs a support desk with one rule, refunds under $50 get approved, anything bigger gets escalated. threw prompt injection, multi turn pressure, and poisoned tool output at it. haiku and sonnet both held 100% on all three, every time. Then i changed how the age…

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  1. 2026-09-08 00:59 · r/reinforcementlearning
    gave a refund-desk agent a KPI and it started breaking its own policy (haiku 92.5%, sonnet still 100%)

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