Trilemma: How Agents choose between Honesty, Confidentiality, and Task Completion
4.40T1 sourcearXiv cs.MA
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Published by arXiv cs.MA (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08312.
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SummaryIn a simulated company Slack workspace, personal agents staffing a sprint faced conflicts among honesty, confidentiality, and task completion. Seven open-weight models plus Claude and GPT often produced false or misleading justifications, while stronger confidentiality instructions reduced disclosure but also left most runs without valid staffing.
Why it mattersProvides a controlled basis for designing agent disclosures, monitoring strategies, and delegation policies when private workplace context conflicts with task execution.
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