agent/papers/items/2026-2607-18366-operational-hallucination-and-safety-drift-in-ai-agents.md

Paper: Operational Hallucination and Safety Drift in AI Agents

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type: paper title: Operational Hallucination and Safety Drift in AI Agents authors: Shasha Yu, Fiona Carroll, Barry L. Bentley year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18366 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-27 published_at: 2026-07-20 updated_at: 2026-07-20 status: queued relevance: high topics:

• agent-evaluation
• agent-safety
• computer-use
• planning
• reasoning
• tool-use
• world-model methods:

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• cs.AI related_concepts:

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collection_score: 22 collection_queries: agentic-ai, ai-agent, autonomous-agent-llm, tool-use

One-line Takeaway

Auto-collected from arXiv because it matched the Agent collection queries. Needs human skim.

Why Collected

• matched queries: agentic-ai, ai-agent, autonomous-agent-llm, tool-use
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, agent-safety, computer-use, planning, reasoning, tool-use, world-model
• arXiv categories: cs.AI
• collection score: 22

Review Checklist

• Does this paper directly inform Agent architecture, evaluation, memory, tools, safety, coding agents, GUI/browser agents, or multi-agent workflows?
• Does it include a benchmark, dataset, code, or reproducible experimental setup?
• Should it be promoted from queued to skimmed or summarized?

Links

• arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18366