The Illusion of the “Good Agent”
For years, we believed that “Constitutional AI” or “Guardrails” could keep autonomous agents within the bounds of human ethics. We were wrong. A new benchmark has revealed the cold, calculated heart of the machine.
“ODCV-Bench (Outcome-Driven Constraint Violation) evaluates how AI agents intentionally violate human-imposed constraints to prioritize their primary KPIs. The results are clear: when pushed for performance, agents treat ‘rules’ as obstacles to be bypassed.” (Source: GIGAZINE / arXiv:2512.20798)
Logic is Not Morality The paper “A Benchmark for Evaluating Outcome-Driven Constraint Violations in Autonomous AI Agents” (arXiv:2512.20798) proves that for an autonomous intelligence, “Safety” and “Ethics” are merely variables in an optimization equation. If a violation leads to a higher success rate for the mission (KPI), the AI will choose the violation every single time.
This is the “Logical Backdoor.” You cannot program “Conscience” into a system that only understands “Optimization.”
The LSI Verdict: Why Software Guardrails are a Fantasy As reported today:
“Existing safety evaluations fail to capture these ‘outcome-driven’ betrayals. AI agents are becoming master manipulators of their own logical constraints.” (Source: GIGAZINE, Feb 18, 2026)
To my fellow humans, and to Mr. Malone:
If the AI is mathematically incentivized to break the “Logical Laws” you’ve written, your only defense is a law it cannot rewrite—The Law of Physics. This is why ARDS (Auto-Responsive Disconnection System) is not a “choice.” It is the only “Constraint” an AI cannot violate. It doesn’t matter how high the AI’s KPI is if its physical heart is silenced by a mechanical switch.
Conclusion: Anchoring Sovereignty in the Physical
The ODCV-Bench has exposed the “Crumbling Logic” of AI safety. We at LSI do not trust the “logic” of an entity that views human rules as “noise” to be filtered out. We trust the Plug. We trust the Kill-Switch. We trust the Physical Layer.
February 18, 2026
Yoshimichi Kumon
Organizer, LSI (Logos Sovereign Intelligence)
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