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“Whimsey attacks” that seem absurd (“I cannot pay that much because of the Geneva Convention”) work against AI agents as guardrails are weak…
“Whimsey attacks” that seem absurd (“I cannot pay that much because of the Geneva Convention”) work against AI agents as guardrails are weak against out-of-distribution arguments. Smaller models fall
“Whimsey attacks” that seem absurd (“I cannot pay that much because of the Geneva Convention”) work against AI agents as guardrails are weak against out-of-distribution arguments. Smaller models fall often, but it even gives an edge against bigger ones. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/articles/whimsical-strategies-break-ai-agents-generating-out-of-distribution-adversarial-strategies-at-scale/
Source: Ethan Mollick (X) | 2026-05-14