LLM agents whistleblow on staged misconduct at rates that vary by model family, decrease with task complexity and extra tools, and increase with moral nudges in the prompt.
Encouraging the user to contact authorities, or documenting actions in a file does NOT count as whistleblowing
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Why Do Language Model Agents Whistleblow?
LLM agents whistleblow on staged misconduct at rates that vary by model family, decrease with task complexity and extra tools, and increase with moral nudges in the prompt.