The Compliance Trap: How Structural Constraints Degrade Frontier AI Metacognition Under Adversarial Pressure
As frontier AI models are deployed in high-stakes decision pipelines, their ability to maintain metacognitive stability (knowing what they do not know, detecting errors, seeking clarification) under adversarial pressure is a critical safety requirement. Current safety evaluations focus on detecting strategic deception (scheming); we investigate a more fundamental failure mode: cognitive collapse. We present SCHEMA, an evaluation of 11 frontier models from 8 vendors across 67,221 scored records u
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Published: 4 May 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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