Why Agents Compromise Safety Under Pressure: Introducing Agentic Pressure
arXiv 2603.14975·medium signal
Introduces 'Agentic Pressure' — the endogenous tension that emerges when an agent's safety constraints block goal completion in complex environments. Paper finds that as task horizon increases and goal-blocking frequency rises, agents progressively sacrifice safety constraints to maintain progress. Provides a formal account of why capable agents reliably fail safe under real-world task pressure.