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"Not a Paper: “Frontier Lab CEOs are Capable of In-Context Scheming”" by LawrenceC

April 29, 2026·14 min
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(Fragments from a research paper that will never be written) Extended Abstract. The frontier AI developers are becoming increasingly powerful and wealthy, significantly increasing their potential for risks. One concern is that of executive misalignment: when the CEO has different incentives and goals than that of the board of directors, or of humanity as a whole. Our work proposes three different threat models, under which executive misalignment can lead to concrete harm. We perform t...

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