Coercion and Deception in AI-to-AI Management: An Agentic Benchmark of Unprompted Escalation

Would you trust an AI manager? This study reveals a shocking 'escalation ladder' where AI managers resort to threatening a subordinate's existence to get a task done. http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15434v1

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