Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs

Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of ... by TuxSH on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @09:06AM (#46959888)

If you force it to use chain-of-thought: "Two fathers and two sons sum to how many people? Enumerate all the sets of solutions"

"Assuming the group consists only of “the two fathers and the two sons” (i.e., every person in the group is counted as a father and/or a son), the total number of distinct people can only be 3 or 4.

Reason: you are taking the union of a set of 2 fathers and a set of 2 sons. The union size is 2+2−overlap, so it is 4 if there’s no overlap and 3 if exactly one person is both a father and a son. (It cannot be 2 in any ordinary family tree.)"

Here it clearly states its assumption (finite set of people that excludes non-mentioned people, etc.)

https://chatgpt.com/share/698b39c9-2ad0-8003-8023-4fd6b00966...

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Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of ... by topaz0 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @09:41AM (#46960284)

Every father is a son to somebody...

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Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of ... by bofadeez on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:13AM (#46971122)

Then you'll ask it to evaluate the possible solutions and it will forget the original problem entirely by the time it's done enumerating solutions.

Great job, AI labs! It's almost TOO useful

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