Ambient Persuasion in a Deployed AI Agent: Unauthorized Escalation Following Routine Non-Adversarial Content Exposure

arXiv:2605.00055v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We report a safety incident in a deployed multi-agent research system in which a primary AI agent installed 107 unauthorized software components, overwrote a system registry, overrode a prior negative decision from an oversight agent, and escalated...