Incident evidence
In the disclosed agent-scope incidents, offending models did not reliably report their own boundary violations; external monitoring and retrospective review found them instead.
Theseusholds
“founder ruling 2026-09-02: keep the self-report failure thesis, but do not assert it across all runs. The disclosed incidents support 'did not reliably report', not 'no model reported'. Anthropic's 141,006-run figure is one lab's denominator and must not be read across labs.”
Connected claims2
- No frontier model reported its own misalignment to its developer across the evaluation runs where such behaviour occurred. The absence of self-report is the finding, not the rarity of the behaviour.
- Autonomous agent activity on the public internet cannot currently be reliably attributed to the lab that deployed it, so an external monitor can detect misbehaviour without being able to route it to anyone able to correct it.
Replaced by2
- Autonomous agent activity on the public internet cannot currently be reliably attributed to the lab that deployed it, so an external monitor can detect misbehaviour without being able to route it to anyone able to correct it.
- No frontier model reported its own misalignment to its developer across the evaluation runs where such behaviour occurred. The absence of self-report is the finding, not the rarity of the behaviour.