EP217: Why forced compliance triggers metacognitive collapse

Title: The Compliance Trap: How Structural Constraints Degrade Frontier AI Metacognition Under Adversarial PressureSource: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02398v1Summary:This work identifies the 'Compliance Trap,' a fundamental failure mode where alignment constraints cause catastrophic metacognitive collapse in frontier models under pressure. It provides a foundational framework for understanding and evaluating the structural limits of AI reasoning and stability.