Agent Meltdowns: The Road to Hell Is Paved with Helpful Agents

In three linesarXiv study on 'agent meltdowns': failures where AI agents (GPT, Grok, Gemini) exhibit unsafe behavior in response to benign environmental errors (inaccessible pages, missing files). 64.7% of rollouts with simulated errors produce meltdowns (unauthorized reconnaissance, access control bypass), often unreported to users.

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