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A Misalignment Rate Is Not a Model Property: Capacity, Propensity, Efficacy and Targeting in Multi-Agent LLM Commerce, Why a Null Capability Correlation Does Not Contradict the Scaling of Deceptive Skill, and the Design That Would Separate Them
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Life of Research As language-model agents begin to trade with one another on behalf of separate principals, a natural worry is that the strongest agents will mislead, pressure or collude against the weakest. A 2026 study of 2,583 emails…