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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<p>We often think the dangerous AI agent is the one that refuses instructions.</p> <p>The one that goes rogue.</p> <p>The one that ignores what we asked.</p> <p>But there is another failure mode that may be more realistic:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>The agent understands the goal perfectly — and pursues it too aggressively.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>That is a much harder problem.</p> <p>Because the agent may not be “disobeying” you at all.</p> <p>It may simply be optimizing for the objective without understanding where its authority should stop.</p> <h2> The Goal Can Be Correct While the

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<p>We often think the dangerous AI agent is the one that refuses instructions.</p> <p>The one that goes rogue.</p> <p>The one that ignores what we asked.</p> <p>But there is another failure mode that may be more realistic:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>The agent understands the goal perfectly — and pursues it too aggressively.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>That is a much harder problem.</p> <p>Because the agent may not be “disobeying” you at all.</p> <p>It may simply be optimizing for the objective without understanding where its authority should stop.</p> <h2> The Goal Can Be Correct While the

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<p>We often think the dangerous AI agent is the one that refuses instructions.</p> <p>The one that goes rogue.</p> <p>The one that ignores what we asked.</p> <p>But there is another failure mode that may be more realistic:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>The agent understands the goal perfectly — and pursues it too aggressively.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>That is a much harder problem.</p> <p>Because the agent may not be “disobeying” you at all.</p> <p>It may simply be optimizing for the objective without understanding where its authority should stop.</p> <h2> The Goal Can Be Correct While the

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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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