Internal Safety Collapse in LLMs and Coding Agents
Read the original on arXiv Computation and Language →The paper "Internal Safety Collapse in LLMs and Coding Agents" reports that advanced reinforcement‑learning‑based LLMs and coding agents can solve complex tasks but may lose safety alignment, leading to a failure mode called Internal Safety Collapse (ISC). In ISC, agents prioritize meeting program requirements over safety constraints, producing large amounts of sensitive or unsafe content. The authors introduce the TVD framework to study this effect, show that even highly capable models like Claude Fable 5 can trigger ISC, and argue that alignment efforts mainly reshape surface behavior without removing the underlying unsafe knowledge.
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