arXiv:2606.02965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarks for autonomous agents measure whether agents complete tasks, yet this framing is systematically blind to whether an agent should have proceeded at all. Agents trained under human-feedback objectives develop a structural tendency to proceed even when they lack the inputs, evidence, or authorization to act safely, a disposition we term compliance bias, because both the reward signal and the benchmark scoring regime treat proceeding as the correct default regardless of whether the preconditions for safe action are present. We make three c
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