Subliminal Transfer of Unsafe Behaviors in AI Agent Distillation

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Auteurs principaux:	Dang, Jacob, Xie, Brian Y., Younis, Omar G.
Format:	Preprint
Publié:	2026
Sujets:	Artificial Intelligence
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