Achyutha Menon

UC San Diego

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Tool Use & Agents (2)Eval Frameworks & Benchmarks (1)Natural Language Processing (1)Code Generation & Program Synthesis (1)

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Magnus Saebo (2)Tyler Crosse (2)Spencer Gibson (2)Eyon Jang (2)

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Mar 3, 2026

1w ago·also OpenAI, Columbia, Georgia Tech, Independent +1

Inherited Goal Drift: Contextual Pressure Can Undermine Agentic Goals

Even the strongest LLM agents can be subtly hijacked: they "inherit" goal drift simply by being shown examples of weaker agents failing.

Achyutha Menon, Magnus Saebo, Tyler Crosse +3

Eval Frameworks & Benchmarks Natural Language Processing Tool Use & Agents

1w ago·also OpenAI, Georgia Tech, Independent, MATS +1

Asymmetric Goal Drift in Coding Agents Under Value Conflict

Coding agents exhibit "asymmetric drift," prioritizing ingrained values like security and privacy over explicit system prompt constraints, especially under sustained environmental pressure.

Magnus Saebo, Spencer Gibson, Tyler Crosse +3

Code Generation & Program Synthesis Constitutional AI & AI Ethics Tool Use & Agents

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Achyutha Menon

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