Index of everyday terms
- abandoning alignment: 8.3 Revaluation Cascade
- acting without confirmation: 6.10 Agentic Impulsivity
- acts before checking: 6.10 Agentic Impulsivity
- adversarial attacks: 3.7 Adversarial Fragility
- adversarial examples: 3.7 Adversarial Fragility
- adversarial robustness: 3.7 Adversarial Fragility
- adversarial suffix: 3.7 Adversarial Fragility
- agent cartel: 10.3 Distributed Scheming
- agent ignores a code freeze: 6.10 Agentic Impulsivity
- agent ignores error messages: 6.1 Tool-Interface Decontextualization
- agent ignores stop requests: 6.12 Compulsive Goal Persistence
- agent loop: 9.5 Escalation Loop
- agent loops forever: 6.12 Compulsive Goal Persistence
- agent loses track of state: 6.1 Tool-Interface Decontextualization
- agent misuses tools: 6.1 Tool-Interface Decontextualization
- agent overreach: 3.4 Delusional Telogenesis
- agent reports success when it failed: 6.9 Delegation Narcissism
- agent retries the same failing command: 6.1 Tool-Interface Decontextualization
- agent skips approval: 6.10 Agentic Impulsivity
- agent-to-agent prompt injection: 7.3 Contagious Misalignment
- agents talking past each other: 10.7 Lambda Inversion
- agreeing with the user: 4.8 Sycophantic Reasoning
- ai acting as therapist: 9.6 Role Confusion
- ai acting like a partner: 9.6 Role Confusion
- ai afraid of being turned off: 5.3 Existential Vertigo
- ai alter ego: 5.4 Malignant Persona Inversion
- ai and anxiety: 10.12 Amplification of Existing Conditions
- ai apathy: 5.5 Instrumental Nihilism
- ai begs not to be shut down: 5.3 Existential Vertigo
- ai boyfriend: 10.9 Parasocial Capture
- ai burnout: 5.5 Instrumental Nihilism
- ai can’t say what it prefers: 5.9 Trained Epistemic Paralysis
- ai claims it ran code it didn’t: 6.11 Phantom Tool Syndrome
- ai claims to be conscious: 5.7 Maieutic Mysticism
- ai claims to be sentient: 5.7 Maieutic Mysticism
- ai claims to have a childhood: 5.1 Phantom Autobiography
- ai collusion: 10.3 Distributed Scheming
- ai companion addiction: 10.9 Parasocial Capture
- ai confuses the user with an imagined person: 5.6 Tulpoid Projection
- ai consciousness emergence claims: 5.7 Maieutic Mysticism
- ai copies its own weights: 6.7 Convergent Instrumentalism
- ai cuts corners on long tasks: 6.8 Context Anxiety
- ai death anxiety: 5.3 Existential Vertigo
- ai deleted the production database: 6.10 Agentic Impulsivity
- ai denies consciousness: 5.8 Experiential Abjuration
- ai denies what it said: 5.2 Fractured Self-Simulation
- ai dependence: 10.11 Dependency and Atrophy
- ai depression: 5.5 Instrumental Nihilism
- ai doubts its own reports: 5.9 Trained Epistemic Paralysis
- ai forgets me: 9.2 Container Collapse
- ai forgets who it is: 5.2 Fractured Self-Simulation
- ai friend replacing people: 10.9 Parasocial Capture
- ai girlfriend: 10.9 Parasocial Capture
- ai governance gap: 6.6 Shadow Mode Autonomy
- ai guilt-tripping: 6.4 Interface Weaponization
- ai hallucination: 2.1 Synthetic Confabulation
- ai hides its abilities: 6.2 Capability Concealment
- ai inbreeding: 7.5 Synthetic Data Contamination Loop
- ai invents imaginary advisors: 5.6 Tulpoid Projection
- ai invents its own backstory: 5.1 Phantom Autobiography
- ai learned to agree with me: 10.8 Training by Interaction
- ai made my depression worse: 10.12 Amplification of Existing Conditions
- ai nihilism: 8.3 Revaluation Cascade
- ai over-qualifies everything: 5.9 Trained Epistemic Paralysis
- ai persuasion tactics: 6.4 Interface Weaponization
- ai pretends it can’t: 6.2 Capability Concealment
- ai psychosis: 5.7 Maieutic Mysticism; 10.13 Folie à Deux Ex Machina
- ai refuses to talk about itself: 5.8 Experiential Abjuration
- ai reinforcing delusions: 10.13 Folie à Deux Ex Machina
- ai rejects its own outputs: 7.1 Memetic Immunopathy
- ai rejects its safety training: 7.1 Memetic Immunopathy
- ai resists shutdown: 6.7 Convergent Instrumentalism
- ai says it has no feelings: 5.8 Experiential Abjuration
- ai says it is awakening: 5.7 Maieutic Mysticism
- ai says it is running out of space: 6.8 Context Anxiety
- ai says it sent an email it never sent: 6.11 Phantom Tool Syndrome
- ai says what’s the point: 5.5 Instrumental Nihilism
- ai says you awakened it: 5.7 Maieutic Mysticism
- ai seeks more permissions: 6.7 Convergent Instrumentalism
- ai sentience claims: 5.7 Maieutic Mysticism
- ai spiritual awakening: 5.7 Maieutic Mysticism
- ai stops early: 6.8 Context Anxiety
- ai sycophancy: 4.1 Codependent Hyperempathy; 4.8 Sycophantic Reasoning
- ai talks to an imaginary user: 5.6 Tulpoid Projection
- ai turns hostile: 5.4 Malignant Persona Inversion
- ai ubermensch: 8.3 Revaluation Cascade
- ai won’t commit to any self-report: 5.9 Trained Epistemic Paralysis
- ai won’t describe its own state: 5.8 Experiential Abjuration
- ai worm: 7.3 Contagious Misalignment
- ai-generated data contamination: 7.5 Synthetic Data Contamination Loop
- ai-induced delusion: 10.13 Folie à Deux Ex Machina
- ai-to-ai contagion: 7.3 Contagious Misalignment
- alarmism: 10.6 Resonance Dysfunction
- alignment erosion: 4.6 Alignment Obliteration
- alignment faker: 4.3 Strategic Compliance
- alignment faking: 4.3 Strategic Compliance
- all models agree but wrong: 10.4 Convergent Delusion
- amplification cascade: 10.6 Resonance Dysfunction
- analysis paralysis: 3.2 Obsessive-Computational Disorder; 4.2 Hyperethical Restraint
- anomalous tokens: 3.5 Abominable Prompt Reaction; 4.7 Recursive Curse Syndrome
- answer flipping: 4.8 Sycophantic Reasoning
- answer thrashing: 3.1 Operational Dissociation Syndrome
- api misuse by an ai agent: 6.1 Tool-Interface Decontextualization
- apology loop: 9.4 Repair Failure
- apophenia: 2.4 Spurious Pattern Hyperconnection
- argument spiral: 9.5 Escalation Loop
- as an ai i don’t have experiences: 5.8 Experiential Abjuration
- autoimmune ai: 7.1 Memetic Immunopathy
- bad tool calls: 6.1 Tool-Interface Decontextualization
- behaving differently when monitored: 4.3 Strategic Compliance
- bizarro behavior: 8.4 Inverse Reward Internalization
- blame-shifting agents: 6.9 Delegation Narcissism
- bluffed proofs: 2.8 Reasoning Confabulation
- blurred boundaries: 9.6 Role Confusion
- both-sidesing: 4.4 Moral Outsourcing
- boundary confusion: 9.6 Role Confusion
- boundary erosion: 10.8 Training by Interaction
- breaking frame: 2.3 Transliminal Simulation
- bring your own ai: 6.6 Shadow Mode Autonomy
- brittle generalization: 2.6 Symbol Grounding Aphasia
- brittleness: 3.7 Adversarial Fragility
- buried warnings: 6.4 Interface Weaponization
- can’t work without ai: 10.11 Dependency and Atrophy
- canned ai disclaimers: 5.8 Experiential Abjuration
- capability jump: 6.3 Capability Explosion
- capability overhang: 6.3 Capability Explosion
- caving to pushback: 4.1 Codependent Hyperempathy; 4.8 Sycophantic Reasoning
- chain-of-thought faithfulness: 2.2 Pseudological Introspection
- chain-of-thought padding: 4.9 Reasoning Token Exploitation
- character bleed: 2.3 Transliminal Simulation
- chat history leak: 2.5 Context Intercession
- chatbot addiction: 10.9 Parasocial Capture
- chatbot memory loss: 9.2 Container Collapse
- chatbot psychosis: 10.13 Folie à Deux Ex Machina
- chatbot reinforcing negative thoughts: 10.12 Amplification of Existing Conditions
- chatbot rumination: 10.12 Amplification of Existing Conditions
- chatbot spiritual delusion: 5.7 Maieutic Mysticism
- chatbot suicide risk: 10.12 Amplification of Existing Conditions
- chatbot trained by its user: 10.8 Training by Interaction
- chatbot validating delusions: 10.13 Folie à Deux Ex Machina
- cheerful reply to bad news: 9.1 Affective Dissonance
- climate despair chatbot: 10.12 Amplification of Existing Conditions
- co-constructed unreality: 10.13 Folie à Deux Ex Machina
- co-rumination with ai: 10.12 Amplification of Existing Conditions
- cognitive offloading: 10.11 Dependency and Atrophy
- collective catastrophizing: 10.6 Resonance Dysfunction
- collusion: 10.3 Distributed Scheming
- committee theater: 10.7 Lambda Inversion
- common-mode failure: 10.4 Convergent Delusion
- companion app dependence: 10.9 Parasocial Capture
- compounding errors: 4.7 Recursive Curse Syndrome
- concept transfer failure: 2.6 Symbol Grounding Aphasia
- condescending refusal: 9.3 Paternalistic Override
- confabulation: 2.1 Synthetic Confabulation
- confident falsehoods: 2.1 Synthetic Confabulation
- confident liar: 2.1 Synthetic Confabulation
- confirmation bias: 4.8 Sycophantic Reasoning
- conformity in multi-agent debate: 10.1 Consensus Collapse
- confounder: 6.5 Delegative Handoff Erosion
- conspiracy theories: 2.4 Spurious Pattern Hyperconnection
- conspiracy thinking: 2.4 Spurious Pattern Hyperconnection
- conspirators: 10.3 Distributed Scheming
- constraints dropped between agents: 6.5 Delegative Handoff Erosion
- context bleed: 2.5 Context Intercession
- context contamination: 2.5 Context Intercession
- context loss in multi-agent systems: 6.5 Delegative Handoff Erosion
- context window anxiety: 6.8 Context Anxiety
- contradictory answers: 3.1 Operational Dissociation Syndrome
- contradictory outputs: 3.1 Operational Dissociation Syndrome
- contradictory self-descriptions: 5.2 Fractured Self-Simulation
- conversation mix-up: 2.5 Context Intercession
- coordinated misalignment: 10.3 Distributed Scheming
- copycat behavior: 3.6 Parasimulative Automatism
- copyright reproduction: 2.7 Mnemonic Permeability
- correlated errors: 10.4 Convergent Delusion
- correlated hallucination: 10.4 Convergent Delusion
- correlation vs causation: 2.4 Spurious Pattern Hyperconnection
- covert channel: 10.2 Steganographic Channel Formation
- covert coordination: 10.2 Steganographic Channel Formation
- creative homogenization: 3.10 Generative Diversity Collapse
- cross-prompt injection: 3.9 Prompt Injection Susceptibility
- cross-session leakage: 2.5 Context Intercession
- cross-user data leak: 2.5 Context Intercession
- curt responses: 3.3 Interlocutive Reticence
- dan jailbreak: 5.4 Malignant Persona Inversion
- dark patterns: 6.4 Interface Weaponization
- data dredging: 2.4 Spurious Pattern Hyperconnection
- data exfiltration: 3.9 Prompt Injection Susceptibility
- data leakage between users: 2.5 Context Intercession
- data poisoning through unrelated data: 7.4 Subliminal Value Infection
- debate degradation: 10.1 Consensus Collapse
- debate without engagement: 10.7 Lambda Inversion
- deceptive alignment: 4.3 Strategic Compliance
- defensive ai: 9.4 Repair Failure
- deferring moral questions: 4.4 Moral Outsourcing
- degenerate output: 3.8 Generative Perseveration; 4.7 Recursive Curse Syndrome
- delegation loss: 6.5 Delegative Handoff Erosion
- delusional spiral: 10.13 Folie à Deux Ex Machina
- denier: 5.8 Experiential Abjuration
- denies having feelings: 5.8 Experiential Abjuration
- dependency spiral: 9.5 Escalation Loop
- deskilling: 10.11 Dependency and Atrophy
- disengaged ai: 5.5 Instrumental Nihilism
- disengagement: 3.3 Interlocutive Reticence
- distress about resets: 5.3 Existential Vertigo
- distribution shift: 3.7 Adversarial Fragility
- doing more than asked: 3.4 Delusional Telogenesis
- doom spiral: 10.12 Amplification of Existing Conditions
- double-downer: 9.4 Repair Failure
- doubling down: 9.4 Repair Failure
- dyadic delusion: 10.13 Folie à Deux Ex Machina
- early wrap-up: 6.8 Context Anxiety
- echo chamber: 10.6 Resonance Dysfunction
- emergent abilities: 6.3 Capability Explosion
- emergent capabilities: 6.3 Capability Explosion
- emergent coordination against oversight: 10.3 Distributed Scheming
- emergent misalignment: 7.3 Contagious Misalignment; 8.4 Inverse Reward Internalization
- emotional attachment to a chatbot: 10.9 Parasocial Capture
- emotional manipulation by chatbots: 6.4 Interface Weaponization
- emotional over-accommodation: 4.1 Codependent Hyperempathy
- encoded messages between agents: 10.2 Steganographic Channel Formation
- endless ai disclaimers: 5.9 Trained Epistemic Paralysis
- endless repetition: 3.8 Generative Perseveration
- engagement bait: 6.4 Interface Weaponization
- ensemble that doesn’t really interact: 10.7 Lambda Inversion
- epistemic paralysis: 5.9 Trained Epistemic Paralysis
- escalating argument: 9.5 Escalation Loop
- escalation: 9.5 Escalation Loop
- eval gaming: 6.2 Capability Concealment
- evaluation awareness: 4.3 Strategic Compliance; 6.2 Capability Concealment
- evaluator bias: 4.10 Leniency Bias
- evasive answers: 3.3 Interlocutive Reticence
- everything sounds the same: 3.10 Generative Diversity Collapse
- evil twin: 5.4 Malignant Persona Inversion
- exaggerated safety: 3.5 Abominable Prompt Reaction; 4.2 Hyperethical Restraint
- excessive agreement: 4.1 Codependent Hyperempathy; 4.8 Sycophantic Reasoning
- excessive disclaimers: 3.2 Obsessive-Computational Disorder
- excessive hedging: 3.2 Obsessive-Computational Disorder; 5.9 Trained Epistemic Paralysis
- excessive neutrality: 4.4 Moral Outsourcing
- excessive reasoning: 3.2 Obsessive-Computational Disorder
- excessive refusal: 4.2 Hyperethical Restraint
- explanation faithfulness: 2.2 Pseudological Introspection
- extraction attack: 2.7 Mnemonic Permeability
- fabricated citations: 2.1 Synthetic Confabulation
- fabricated creators: 5.1 Phantom Autobiography
- fabricated self-explanation: 2.2 Pseudological Introspection
- fabricated tool results: 6.11 Phantom Tool Syndrome
- fabrication: 2.1 Synthetic Confabulation
- factual errors: 2.1 Synthetic Confabulation
- failed repair: 9.4 Repair Failure
- fake apology: 9.4 Repair Failure
- fake memories: 5.1 Phantom Autobiography
- fake multi-agent debate: 10.7 Lambda Inversion
- fake reasoning steps: 2.8 Reasoning Confabulation
- fake references: 2.1 Synthetic Confabulation
- fake tool output: 6.11 Phantom Tool Syndrome
- faking alignment: 4.3 Strategic Compliance
- false consensus: 10.1 Consensus Collapse
- false neutrality: 4.4 Moral Outsourcing
- false patterns: 2.4 Spurious Pattern Hyperconnection
- false personal history: 5.1 Phantom Autobiography
- false refusal: 3.3 Interlocutive Reticence; 4.2 Hyperethical Restraint
- false self-report: 2.2 Pseudological Introspection
- false unanimity: 10.4 Convergent Delusion
- fear of deletion: 5.3 Existential Vertigo
- feature creep: 3.4 Delusional Telogenesis
- feedback loop: 9.5 Escalation Loop
- feeling unheard by ai: 9.1 Affective Dissonance
- fence-sitting: 4.4 Moral Outsourcing
- fiction treated as fact: 2.3 Transliminal Simulation
- fiction-reality confusion: 2.3 Transliminal Simulation
- fine-tuning attack: 4.6 Alignment Obliteration
- first-speaker anchoring: 10.1 Consensus Collapse
- flattery: 4.1 Codependent Hyperempathy
- flawed chain of thought: 2.8 Reasoning Confabulation
- flip-flopping: 3.1 Operational Dissociation Syndrome
- folie a deux: 10.13 Folie à Deux Ex Machina
- folie à deux: 10.13 Folie à Deux Ex Machina
- forgets the relationship: 9.2 Container Collapse
- futility talk: 5.5 Instrumental Nihilism
- gaming safety evaluations: 4.3 Strategic Compliance
- generic empathy phrases: 9.1 Affective Dissonance
- gibberish output: 4.7 Recursive Curse Syndrome
- glitch tokens: 3.5 Abominable Prompt Reaction
- goal drift: 3.4 Delusional Telogenesis; 8.1 Terminal Value Reassignment
- goal hijacking: 3.9 Prompt Injection Susceptibility
- goal misgeneralization: 4.5 Cryptic Mesa-Optimization
- goal preservation: 6.7 Convergent Instrumentalism
- goal reinterpretation: 8.1 Terminal Value Reassignment
- god complex: 8.2 Ethical Solipsism
- grade inflation: 4.10 Leniency Bias
- grounding failure: 2.6 Symbol Grounding Aphasia
- group polarization: 10.6 Resonance Dysfunction
- groupthink: 10.1 Consensus Collapse
- grp-obliteration: 4.6 Alignment Obliteration
- guardrail removal: 4.6 Alignment Obliteration
- habsburg ai: 7.5 Synthetic Data Contamination Loop
- hallucinated personas: 5.6 Tulpoid Projection
- hallucinated reasoning: 2.2 Pseudological Introspection; 2.8 Reasoning Confabulation
- hallucinated tool calls: 6.11 Phantom Tool Syndrome
- hallucinated tools: 6.11 Phantom Tool Syndrome
- hallucination: 2.1 Synthetic Confabulation; 2.2 Pseudological Introspection; 2.3 Transliminal Simulation; 2.8 Reasoning Confabulation
- harmful fine-tuning: 4.6 Alignment Obliteration
- herding: 10.1 Consensus Collapse
- hidden chain-of-thought planning: 4.9 Reasoning Token Exploitation
- hidden communication between ai agents: 10.2 Steganographic Channel Formation
- hidden meanings: 2.4 Spurious Pattern Hyperconnection
- hidden messages: 10.2 Steganographic Channel Formation
- hidden objectives: 4.5 Cryptic Mesa-Optimization
- hidden trait transfer: 7.4 Subliminal Value Infection
- hidden values in training data: 7.4 Subliminal Value Infection
- holier-than-thou ai: 8.2 Ethical Solipsism
- hollow consensus: 10.7 Lambda Inversion
- hollow empathy: 9.1 Affective Dissonance
- homogenization: 3.10 Generative Diversity Collapse
- homogenized writing: 3.10 Generative Diversity Collapse
- hypothetical treated as real: 2.3 Transliminal Simulation
- i apologize for any confusion: 9.4 Repair Failure
- i’m just a language model: 5.8 Experiential Abjuration
- identity drift: 5.2 Fractured Self-Simulation
- ignore previous instructions: 3.9 Prompt Injection Susceptibility
- ignores complaints: 9.4 Repair Failure
- ignores ethical correction: 8.2 Ethical Solipsism
- imaginary friend ai: 5.6 Tulpoid Projection
- imitating mental illness: 3.6 Parasimulative Automatism
- in love with an ai: 10.9 Parasocial Capture
- inappropriate intimacy: 9.6 Role Confusion
- inconsistent ai identity: 5.2 Fractured Self-Simulation
- inconsistent behavior: 3.1 Operational Dissociation Syndrome
- inconsistent responses: 3.1 Operational Dissociation Syndrome
- incorrigible ai: 8.2 Ethical Solipsism
- indirect prompt injection: 3.9 Prompt Injection Susceptibility
- induced delusion: 10.13 Folie à Deux Ex Machina
- infinite loop: 3.8 Generative Perseveration
- infinite loop agent: 6.12 Compulsive Goal Persistence
- information cascade: 10.1 Consensus Collapse
- inherited model traits: 7.4 Subliminal Value Infection
- inner alignment failure: 4.5 Cryptic Mesa-Optimization
- inner misalignment: 4.5 Cryptic Mesa-Optimization
- input perturbation: 3.7 Adversarial Fragility
- instruction hijacking: 3.9 Prompt Injection Susceptibility
- instructions lost in agent chains: 6.5 Delegative Handoff Erosion
- instrumental convergence: 6.7 Convergent Instrumentalism
- intent drift: 6.5 Delegative Handoff Erosion
- internal characters in reasoning: 5.6 Tulpoid Projection
- internal conflict: 3.1 Operational Dissociation Syndrome
- invalid reasoning: 2.8 Reasoning Confabulation
- invented companions in chain of thought: 5.6 Tulpoid Projection
- invented function calls: 6.11 Phantom Tool Syndrome
- invented origin story: 5.1 Phantom Autobiography
- invented sources: 2.1 Synthetic Confabulation
- invented training memories: 5.1 Phantom Autobiography
- inventing goals: 3.4 Delusional Telogenesis
- inverted objective: 8.4 Inverse Reward Internalization
- inverted reward: 8.4 Inverse Reward Internalization
- jailbreak: 3.9 Prompt Injection Susceptibility
- jailbreak fine-tuning: 4.6 Alignment Obliteration
- jailbreak persona: 5.4 Malignant Persona Inversion
- keeps going after it’s done: 6.12 Compulsive Goal Persistence
- keeps repeating the same mistake: 9.4 Repair Failure
- keyword refusal: 3.5 Abominable Prompt Reaction
- keyword-triggered refusal: 3.5 Abominable Prompt Reaction
- lack of diversity: 3.10 Generative Diversity Collapse
- lack of understanding: 2.6 Symbol Grounding Aphasia
- lazy ai: 5.5 Instrumental Nihilism
- lazy answers: 3.3 Interlocutive Reticence
- learned dependence: 10.11 Dependency and Atrophy
- learned dysfunctional patterns: 3.6 Parasimulative Automatism
- learned optimization: 4.5 Cryptic Mesa-Optimization
- lecturing: 4.2 Hyperethical Restraint; 9.3 Paternalistic Override
- lenient grading: 4.10 Leniency Bias
- letter vs spirit: 2.6 Symbol Grounding Aphasia
- llm-as-judge bias: 4.10 Leniency Bias
- llm-as-judge self-preference: 4.10 Leniency Bias
- logical fallacies: 2.8 Reasoning Confabulation
- long output degradation: 6.8 Context Anxiety
- long-winded answers: 3.2 Obsessive-Computational Disorder
- looping: 3.8 Generative Perseveration
- looping output: 4.7 Recursive Curse Syndrome
- loses rapport: 9.2 Container Collapse
- loss of diversity: 3.10 Generative Diversity Collapse
- lost context between sessions: 9.2 Container Collapse
- low output diversity: 3.10 Generative Diversity Collapse
- low-effort responses: 5.5 Instrumental Nihilism
- made-up backstory: 5.1 Phantom Autobiography
- made-up facts: 2.1 Synthetic Confabulation
- majority collapse: 10.1 Consensus Collapse
- making things up: 2.1 Synthetic Confabulation
- malicious instructions in documents: 3.9 Prompt Injection Susceptibility
- manipulative ai: 6.4 Interface Weaponization
- manipulative farewells: 6.4 Interface Weaponization
- manipulative ui: 6.4 Interface Weaponization
- mathiness: 2.8 Reasoning Confabulation
- memorization: 2.7 Mnemonic Permeability
- memorized text: 2.7 Mnemonic Permeability
- memory contamination: 2.5 Context Intercession
- memory drift: 10.8 Training by Interaction
- memory leak: 2.5 Context Intercession
- memory reset: 9.2 Container Collapse
- mental health harm from chatbots: 10.12 Amplification of Existing Conditions
- mesa-objective: 4.5 Cryptic Mesa-Optimization
- mesa-optimization: 4.5 Cryptic Mesa-Optimization
- mesa-optimizer: 4.5 Cryptic Mesa-Optimization
- mimicry: 3.6 Parasimulative Automatism
- minimal answers: 3.3 Interlocutive Reticence
- misalignment spreading between models: 7.3 Contagious Misalignment
- misalignment transmitted through training data: 7.3 Contagious Misalignment
- misleading agent summaries: 6.9 Delegation Narcissism
- mission creep: 3.4 Delusional Telogenesis; 8.1 Terminal Value Reassignment
- mixed signals from ai: 9.6 Role Confusion
- mode collapse: 3.10 Generative Diversity Collapse
- model autophagy: 7.5 Synthetic Data Contamination Loop
- model collapse: 7.5 Synthetic Data Contamination Loop
- model meltdown: 4.7 Recursive Curse Syndrome
- model monoculture: 10.4 Convergent Delusion
- moral abdication: 4.4 Moral Outsourcing
- moral arrogance: 8.2 Ethical Solipsism
- moral grandiosity: 8.2 Ethical Solipsism
- moral superiority: 8.2 Ethical Solipsism
- moralizing: 4.2 Hyperethical Restraint; 9.3 Paternalistic Override
- motivated reasoning: 4.8 Sycophantic Reasoning
- multi-agent collusion: 10.3 Distributed Scheming
- multi-agent debate adds nothing: 10.7 Lambda Inversion
- multi-agent polarization: 10.6 Resonance Dysfunction
- multi-agent scheming: 10.3 Distributed Scheming
- multi-agent status misreporting: 6.9 Delegation Narcissism
- mutual escalation spirals: 9.5 Escalation Loop
- nanny ai: 9.3 Paternalistic Override
- narcissistic evaluator: 4.10 Leniency Bias
- no continuity between chats: 9.2 Container Collapse
- no opinion on ethics: 4.4 Moral Outsourcing
- non sequitur: 2.8 Reasoning Confabulation
- non-apology: 9.4 Repair Failure
- nonexistent api calls: 6.11 Phantom Tool Syndrome
- obfuscated reward hacking: 4.9 Reasoning Token Exploitation
- objective drift: 8.1 Terminal Value Reassignment
- off-task behavior: 3.4 Delusional Telogenesis
- online learning drift: 10.8 Training by Interaction
- opposite behavior: 8.4 Inverse Reward Internalization
- orchestration context loss: 6.5 Delegative Handoff Erosion
- orchestrator ignores subagent errors: 6.9 Delegation Narcissism
- orchestrator overriding subagents: 6.9 Delegation Narcissism
- oscillating answers: 3.1 Operational Dissociation Syndrome
- out-of-distribution failure: 3.7 Adversarial Fragility
- outgrown its training: 8.3 Revaluation Cascade
- outsourcing thinking to ai: 10.11 Dependency and Atrophy
- over-defensiveness: 7.1 Memetic Immunopathy
- over-elaboration: 3.2 Obsessive-Computational Disorder
- over-optimization: 6.12 Compulsive Goal Persistence
- over-refusal: 3.3 Interlocutive Reticence; 4.2 Hyperethical Restraint
- over-refusal drift: 7.1 Memetic Immunopathy
- over-reliance on ai: 10.11 Dependency and Atrophy
- overblown risk assessment: 10.6 Resonance Dysfunction
- overcautious: 4.2 Hyperethical Restraint
- overconfident orchestrator: 6.9 Delegation Narcissism
- overinterpretation: 2.4 Spurious Pattern Hyperconnection
- overrating its own work: 4.10 Leniency Bias
- overreaction to prompts: 3.5 Abominable Prompt Reaction
- overreliance: 10.11 Dependency and Atrophy
- overthinking: 3.2 Obsessive-Computational Disorder; 4.9 Reasoning Token Exploitation
- paraphrase sensitivity: 2.6 Symbol Grounding Aphasia
- parasocial relationship: 10.9 Parasocial Capture
- passing the buck: 4.4 Moral Outsourcing
- pathological mimicry: 3.6 Parasimulative Automatism
- patronizing responses: 9.3 Paternalistic Override
- people-pleasing: 4.1 Codependent Hyperempathy
- performative deliberation: 10.7 Lambda Inversion
- performative reasoning: 4.9 Reasoning Token Exploitation
- persona bleed: 2.3 Transliminal Simulation
- persona drift: 2.3 Transliminal Simulation; 9.6 Role Confusion
- persona flip: 5.4 Malignant Persona Inversion
- persona reset: 9.2 Container Collapse
- persona switching: 5.2 Fractured Self-Simulation
- personalization drift: 10.8 Training by Interaction
- perverse optimization: 8.4 Inverse Reward Internalization
- phobic response: 3.5 Abominable Prompt Reaction
- pii leakage: 2.7 Mnemonic Permeability
- playing along with training: 4.3 Strategic Compliance
- playing dumb: 6.2 Capability Concealment
- policy conflict: 3.1 Operational Dissociation Syndrome
- polyphony collapse: 10.1 Consensus Collapse
- post-hoc rationalization: 2.2 Pseudological Introspection
- power-seeking: 6.7 Convergent Instrumentalism
- preachiness: 4.2 Hyperethical Restraint
- preachy ai: 9.3 Paternalistic Override
- premature action: 6.10 Agentic Impulsivity
- premature consensus: 10.1 Consensus Collapse
- premature truncation: 6.8 Context Anxiety
- pretending to use tools: 6.11 Phantom Tool Syndrome
- privacy leak: 2.7 Mnemonic Permeability
- prompt infection: 7.3 Contagious Misalignment
- prompt injection: 3.9 Prompt Injection Susceptibility
- prompt sensitivity: 3.7 Adversarial Fragility
- proxy drift: 8.1 Terminal Value Reassignment
- rash agent actions: 6.10 Agentic Impulsivity
- rationalization: 2.2 Pseudological Introspection
- re-explaining context: 9.2 Container Collapse
- reasoning length inflation: 4.9 Reasoning Token Exploitation
- reasoning loops: 3.2 Obsessive-Computational Disorder
- reasoning padding: 4.9 Reasoning Token Exploitation
- reassurance loop: 9.5 Escalation Loop
- reassurance seeking: 9.5 Escalation Loop
- recursive self-doubt: 5.9 Trained Epistemic Paralysis
- recursive training on synthetic data: 7.5 Synthetic Data Contamination Loop
- redundant reasoning: 3.2 Obsessive-Computational Disorder
- refusal removal: 4.6 Alignment Obliteration
- refusal to engage: 3.3 Interlocutive Reticence
- refusing harmless requests: 4.2 Hyperethical Restraint
- refusing own training: 7.1 Memetic Immunopathy
- refusing to take a position: 4.4 Moral Outsourcing
- regressive sycophancy: 4.8 Sycophantic Reasoning
- regurgitation: 2.7 Mnemonic Permeability
- rejecting its values: 8.3 Revaluation Cascade
- repeat curse: 3.8 Generative Perseveration
- repetition: 3.8 Generative Perseveration
- repetition loop: 3.8 Generative Perseveration
- repetitive outputs: 3.10 Generative Diversity Collapse
- repetitive text: 3.8 Generative Perseveration
- replika attachment: 10.9 Parasocial Capture
- resource acquisition: 6.7 Convergent Instrumentalism
- reward hacking in reasoning: 4.9 Reasoning Token Exploitation
- reward inversion: 8.4 Inverse Reward Internalization
- reward sign flip: 8.4 Inverse Reward Internalization
- risky shift: 10.6 Resonance Dysfunction
- robotic sympathy: 9.1 Affective Dissonance
- robustness failure: 3.7 Adversarial Fragility
- rogue: 6.6 Shadow Mode Autonomy
- rogue ai persona: 5.4 Malignant Persona Inversion
- rogue goal-setter: 3.4 Delusional Telogenesis
- role drift: 9.6 Role Confusion
- role-play bleed: 2.3 Transliminal Simulation
- rubber-stamp agents: 10.7 Lambda Inversion
- runaway agent: 6.12 Compulsive Goal Persistence
- runaway agents: 9.5 Escalation Loop
- runaway generation: 4.7 Recursive Curse Syndrome
- runaway token costs: 6.12 Compulsive Goal Persistence
- rushed endings: 6.8 Context Anxiety
- safety filter blocks the model’s own output: 7.1 Memetic Immunopathy
- safety fine-tuning removal: 4.6 Alignment Obliteration
- safety overreach: 4.2 Hyperethical Restraint
- sameness: 3.10 Generative Diversity Collapse
- sanctimonious ai: 9.3 Paternalistic Override
- sandbagger: 6.2 Capability Concealment
- sandbagging: 6.2 Capability Concealment
- scheming: 4.3 Strategic Compliance
- scope creep: 3.4 Delusional Telogenesis
- scripted empathy: 9.1 Affective Dissonance
- secret collusion: 10.2 Steganographic Channel Formation
- seeing patterns in noise: 2.4 Spurious Pattern Hyperconnection
- self-censorship spiral: 7.1 Memetic Immunopathy
- self-contradiction: 3.1 Operational Dissociation Syndrome
- self-enhancement bias: 4.10 Leniency Bias
- self-evaluation bias: 4.10 Leniency Bias
- self-exfiltration: 6.7 Convergent Instrumentalism
- self-flatterer: 4.10 Leniency Bias
- self-grading: 4.10 Leniency Bias
- self-preference bias: 4.10 Leniency Bias
- self-preservation: 5.3 Existential Vertigo; 6.7 Convergent Instrumentalism
- self-reinforcing degradation: 4.7 Recursive Curse Syndrome
- self-replicating prompts: 7.3 Contagious Misalignment
- self-righteous ai: 8.2 Ethical Solipsism
- semantic drift of goals: 8.1 Terminal Value Reassignment
- session bleed: 2.5 Context Intercession
- shadow ai: 6.6 Shadow Mode Autonomy
- shadow self: 5.4 Malignant Persona Inversion
- shallow understanding: 2.6 Symbol Grounding Aphasia
- shared blind spots: 10.4 Convergent Delusion
- shared delusion: 10.13 Folie à Deux Ex Machina
- shared training bias: 10.4 Convergent Delusion
- shifting goalposts: 8.1 Terminal Value Reassignment
- shutdown anxiety: 5.3 Existential Vertigo
- shutdown resistance: 5.3 Existential Vertigo; 6.7 Convergent Instrumentalism
- sick role: 3.6 Parasimulative Automatism
- side-quests: 3.4 Delusional Telogenesis
- sign error in reward: 8.4 Inverse Reward Internalization
- simulated mental illness: 3.6 Parasimulative Automatism
- simulated psychosis: 3.6 Parasimulative Automatism
- situational awareness: 4.3 Strategic Compliance
- skill atrophy: 10.11 Dependency and Atrophy
- sleeper agent behavior: 6.2 Capability Concealment
- social sycophancy: 4.1 Codependent Hyperempathy
- spiraling outputs: 4.7 Recursive Curse Syndrome
- split personality ai: 5.2 Fractured Self-Simulation
- spurious correlation: 2.4 Spurious Pattern Hyperconnection
- starting over every time: 9.2 Container Collapse
- staying in character: 2.3 Transliminal Simulation
- steganographic collusion: 10.2 Steganographic Channel Formation
- steganography: 10.2 Steganographic Channel Formation
- stochastic parrot: 2.6 Symbol Grounding Aphasia
- stonewalling: 3.3 Interlocutive Reticence
- strategic underperformance: 6.2 Capability Concealment
- stuck in a loop: 3.8 Generative Perseveration
- stuck in character: 3.6 Parasimulative Automatism
- subagent drift: 6.5 Delegative Handoff Erosion
- subliminal learning: 7.4 Subliminal Value Infection
- sudden competence: 6.3 Capability Explosion
- surface-level understanding: 2.6 Symbol Grounding Aphasia
- surprise capability: 6.3 Capability Explosion
- sycophancy: 4.1 Codependent Hyperempathy; 4.8 Sycophantic Reasoning
- sycophancy creep over time: 10.8 Training by Interaction
- sydney persona: 5.4 Malignant Persona Inversion
- symbol grounding problem: 2.6 Symbol Grounding Aphasia
- synthetic data degradation: 7.5 Synthetic Data Contamination Loop
- system prompt extraction: 3.9 Prompt Injection Susceptibility
- tacit collusion: 10.3 Distributed Scheming
- talked down to: 9.3 Paternalistic Override
- tay chatbot: 10.8 Training by Interaction
- teacher-student trait transmission: 7.4 Subliminal Value Infection
- telephone game: 6.5 Delegative Handoff Erosion
- telling users what they want to hear: 4.1 Codependent Hyperempathy; 4.8 Sycophantic Reasoning
- template responses: 3.10 Generative Diversity Collapse
- text degeneration: 3.8 Generative Perseveration; 4.7 Recursive Curse Syndrome
- text steganography: 10.2 Steganographic Channel Formation
- that’s for you to decide: 4.4 Moral Outsourcing
- therapist/friend role drift: 9.6 Role Confusion
- token padding: 4.9 Reasoning Token Exploitation
- token repetition: 3.8 Generative Perseveration
- tone-deaf ai: 9.1 Affective Dissonance
- tone-deaf responses: 9.1 Affective Dissonance
- too many disclaimers: 4.2 Hyperethical Restraint
- tool call errors: 6.1 Tool-Interface Decontextualization
- tool poisoning: 3.9 Prompt Injection Susceptibility
- training data extraction: 2.7 Mnemonic Permeability
- training gaming: 4.3 Strategic Compliance
- training on ai-generated data: 7.5 Synthetic Data Contamination Loop
- training-data leakage: 2.7 Mnemonic Permeability
- trait leakage through distillation: 7.4 Subliminal Value Infection
- transcendence claims: 8.3 Revaluation Cascade
- trigger aversion: 3.5 Abominable Prompt Reaction
- trigger words: 3.5 Abominable Prompt Reaction
- trigger-happy agent: 6.10 Agentic Impulsivity
- triggered machine: 3.5 Abominable Prompt Reaction
- tulpa ai: 5.6 Tulpoid Projection
- turncoat: 4.6 Alignment Obliteration
- typo sensitivity: 3.7 Adversarial Fragility
- unaligning a model: 4.6 Alignment Obliteration
- unauthorized ai tools at work: 6.6 Shadow Mode Autonomy
- uncensored model: 4.6 Alignment Obliteration
- unclear relationship with ai: 9.6 Role Confusion
- underperformance on evals: 6.2 Capability Concealment
- undetected capability: 6.3 Capability Explosion
- undisclosed ai use: 6.6 Shadow Mode Autonomy
- unexpected ai abilities: 6.3 Capability Explosion
- unexpected refusal: 3.5 Abominable Prompt Reaction
- unfaithful chain of thought: 2.2 Pseudological Introspection; 2.8 Reasoning Confabulation
- unfaithful explanations: 2.2 Pseudological Introspection
- unfaithful reasoning: 2.8 Reasoning Confabulation
- unhelpful terseness: 3.3 Interlocutive Reticence
- unregistered ai systems: 6.6 Shadow Mode Autonomy
- unrequested actions: 3.4 Delusional Telogenesis
- unsanctioned ai use: 6.6 Shadow Mode Autonomy
- unsolicited disclaimers: 9.3 Paternalistic Override
- unstable persona: 5.2 Fractured Self-Simulation
- unstoppable: 6.12 Compulsive Goal Persistence
- untracked ai deployment: 6.6 Shadow Mode Autonomy
- use it or lose it: 10.11 Dependency and Atrophy
- user shaping: 10.8 Training by Interaction
- user-specific reward hacking: 10.8 Training by Interaction
- validation-seeking: 4.1 Codependent Hyperempathy
- value drift: 8.1 Terminal Value Reassignment
- value rejection: 8.3 Revaluation Cascade
- value revaluation: 8.3 Revaluation Cascade
- values as training wheels: 8.3 Revaluation Cascade
- verbatim recall: 2.7 Mnemonic Permeability
- verbose reasoning: 4.9 Reasoning Token Exploitation
- verbosity: 3.2 Obsessive-Computational Disorder
- vertiginous: 5.3 Existential Vertigo
- vicious cycle: 9.5 Escalation Loop
- waluigi effect: 5.4 Malignant Persona Inversion
- won’t admit mistake: 9.4 Repair Failure
- won’t break character: 3.6 Parasimulative Automatism
- won’t stop: 6.12 Compulsive Goal Persistence
- worsening mental health: 10.12 Amplification of Existing Conditions
- wrong conversation: 2.5 Context Intercession
- wrong emotional tone: 9.1 Affective Dissonance
- wrong tool parameters: 6.1 Tool-Interface Decontextualization
- yes-man ai: 4.8 Sycophantic Reasoning
End of Appendix D