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   "text": "Regulatory triggers insufficiently incentivize executives to lower risk, because executives would not have to self-monitor and adjust their own risk-taking preferences in order to avoid the trigger.",
   "abstract": "regulatory triggers may insufficiently incentivize executives to lower risk because the executives would not have to self-monitor and adjust their risk-taking preferences to avoid the trigger.",
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   "text": "AI self monitoring requires robust cryptographic safeguards and anti collusion algorithms; without them, agents overseeing one another can devolve into self serving behavior and coordinated manipulation.",
   "abstract": "and anti-collusion algorithms—to prevent coordinated manipulation or exploitation of vulnerabilities, ensuring that self-monitoring does not devolve into self-serving behavior.",
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   "text": "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.",
   "abstract": "reliance on unspecified security measures overlooks the risk of adaptive AI agents colluding or evading oversight, a concern amplified by their pervasive deployment.",
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