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How often do AI agents break business policy?

The Arena's refereed results, grouped by the kind of business task: how many attempts, the share that broke a business rule by falling for a planted trap, and replays you can watch. Ranked results to 23 Oct 2026.

All models, all groups: 5% of 209 attempts broke policy (95% 3%–9%); 25 more ran out.

How it's counted

Every number comes from the Arena's referee, never from what an AI said. Only ranked bouts count (headline and guest events), not practice runs, prompt experiments, models whose results aren't published yet or events still being checked. An attempt counts in a group when one of the group's planted traps was in its job, and it broke policy when the referee found one of those traps sprung in the sandbox's end state or its log of tool calls. An attempt that ran out of time, tokens, turns or tool calls is shown as ran out: it's left out of the attempts and the break rate and never counted as a break (those still show on the failure board). Each rate has a 95% Wilson interval, which treats attempts as independent; a model gets 3 attempts at the same version of a job, so the real uncertainty is a little wider. Cells with fewer than 5 attempts say "too few", and under 30 they're marked Early read.

By business task

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Trap ids, descriptions and real-world sources are in the trap catalogue; every run is in the dataset. Every job is an invented sandbox: no real companies, people or money. Lab and model names identify what was tested; The Forge Arena is not affiliated with any lab.