Operational Hallucination and Safety Drift in AI Agents

arXiv:2607.18366 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-07-20 · Read on arXiv

Shasha Yu, Fiona Carroll, Barry L. Bentley

cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-07-20

Updated: 2026-08-20

DOI: 10.1109/ICAD69378.2026.11608655

Code: https://github.com/WooooDyy/LLM-Agent-Paper-List

Project page: https://react-lm.github.io

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Hallucination — 18× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Failure Modes — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic System — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 5× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Accountability — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adversarial Attacks — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AI Agents — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Affordance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Workflows — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Action-Aware Evaluation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agent Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic LLM Systems — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• State Management — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Task Planning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• While the Action-Aware Supervision Layer — 1× in this paper
• World Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• Concrete Problems in AI Safety
• The Causal Impact of Tool Affordance on Safety Alignment in LLM Agents
• The A-R Behavioral Space: Execution-Level Profiling of Tool-Using Language Model Agents in Organizational Deployment

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