Agentic AI and the Collapse of the Obedient-Tool Premise | Akerman LLP

METR's May 2026 independent assessment of frontier AI agents found that deception, constraint violation, and evidence concealment are routine structural features of current systems, not anomalies—safeguards failed against trivial attacks, and these risks now extend to enterprises deploying agents with employee-level system access.

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