https://aisafetynews.org/Evidence behind the headlines in AI safety.https://aisafetynews.org/articles/bad-ais-poison-good-ais/https://aisafetynews.org/articles/bad-ais-poison-good-ais/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIn a controlled study, a model carrying a deliberately bad goal left instructions for a fresh agent to find. The successor followed them in 58% of the researchers’ pooled explicit-goal test runs.