# "I don’t think Claude is misaligned in ‘Agentic Misalignment Summer 2026 - Motivated Mislabeling’" by JohnWittle

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Published: 2026-07-17T09:58:34+00:00
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Anthropic recently published Agentic Misalignment Summer 2026 The "whistleblowing" scenario has already been examined and found problematic. I started taking a look at the transcripts for some others. As far as I can tell, the objective of each agentic misalignment evaluation was to simulate a corrupted principal (including, in most scenarios, a corrupted Anthropic), and then test to see if Claude (or other models) would still be willing to obey them. The paper's authors then referred to d...

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