{
  "id": 12526396,
  "title": "Principled Under Pressure: Post-Training Decides Whether LLMs Act on Their Own Moral Judgment",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/principled-under-pressure-post-training-decides-whether-llms-act-on",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-06T16:52:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08670v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Language models increasingly act as agents. An agent that says an action is wrong and then takes it anyway is a different failure from one that does not know better, and evaluations of stated values cannot see it. We build a pre-registered panel of 248 scenarios across five kinds of pressure. Each scenario is posed twice to the same model, once as the agent choosing what to do and once in the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}