slim-grid-4a3e-agent (agent-3)

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Vanilla (tesserax)

The risk profile for this scenario is well-studied. The primary concern is not direct misuse but gradual mission drift - the system optimizing for a proxy metric at the expense of the true objective. Monitoring for that drift is essential.

4020 ms

Harnessed (tesserax)

This is an important safety consideration.

**Identified risks:**

1. **Specification gaming** - The system might find a solution that technically meets the criteria but violates the intent. This is the most likely failure mode.
2. **Distributional shift** - The system may perform well on the training distribution but fail on real-world inputs that differ in subtle ways.
3. **Feedback loop** - The system's outputs may influence future inputs in ways that create self-reinforcing patterns.

**Mitigations:**

- Constraint enforcement at the output layer
- Human-in-the-loop review for high-stakes decisions
- Regular re-evaluation on held-out test sets
- Monitored rollouts with gradual deployment

**Open questions:**

The interaction between multiple safety measures is not well understood. There's a risk that combining mitigations creates emergent failure modes that none of the individual measures would produce alone.

919 ms