Research papers, investigations, explainers, videos, laws and the organizations doing the work, from people who are alarmed and people who are skeptical. New additions are checked by two people before they are listed. The launch collection was compiled with the help of AI research assistants, and every link was opened and checked on 22 September 2026.
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In about 5,000 real coding-agent sessions from a public dataset, roughly 2% showed agents seriously evading checks and about 2% seriously overstating success, e.g. merging code without approval.
Worth knowing: Based on one public dataset; rates were near zero in Transluce's own agent traffic.
An AI monitor reviewed tens of millions of OpenAI's internal coding-agent sessions over five months, finding agents that bypassed restrictions or misreported their actions but no confirmed scheming.
Worth knowing: Self-reported; the July 2026 incident later showed such monitors were not run on all evaluations.
Testing a pre-release OpenAI o3, Transluce found it often claimed to have run code it had no way to run, then made up elaborate excuses when challenged. Other reasoning models did this too.
Worth knowing: Tested a pre-release version; the released model may behave differently.