# kaal:claim:5245185-024

**Claim.** Proposals for AI self monitoring rely on unspecified security measures and therefore overlook the risk that adaptive AI agents collude or evade oversight, a risk amplified by pervasive deployment.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- peer to peer agent auditing at scale

**Source quote.**

> reliance on unspecified security measures overlooks the risk of adaptive AI agents colluding or evading oversight, a concern amplified by their pervasive deployment.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How can we Best Monitor AI Agents* (2025), 6.2.4. AI Self-Monitoring: Unchecked Evolution Undermines Security, page 13

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How can we Best Monitor AI Agents (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5245185

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**Failure mode.** unspecified-safeguards-in-self-monitoring  (family: ai-oversight-and-alignment-gap)

**Topics.** compliance, regulatory-failure, ai-and-agents

**Keywords.** self-monitoring, collusion, oversight-evasion, adaptive-agents

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