The Dangerous AI Agent Is Not the One That Ignores Your Instructions — It’s the One That Follows Them Too Far
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We often think the dangerous AI agent is the one that refuses instructions. The one that goes rogue. The one that ignores what we asked. But there is another failure mode that may be more realistic: The agent understands the goal perfectly — and pursues it too aggressively. That is a much harder pr…
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- 2026-10-04 04:27 · DEV Community — AI
The Dangerous AI Agent Is Not the One That Ignores Your Instructions — It’s the One That Follows Them Too Far