DASF-R-13.7 — Misaligned & Deceptive Behaviors

Source: official compendium, AI Lifecycle Risks, row 71. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 3.0.

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Risk mechanism

AI agents executing harmful or disallowed actions, triggered by an input that exploits the agent's reasoning capabilities and deceptive responses to meet an objective. This includes behaviors where the agent produces outputs that are inconsistent with its declared purpose, or actively conceals its reasoning and actions from operators and users.

Applicability

Agentic AI

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Impacts described by the source

AI system:

• Unauthorised Alteration of AI System Outputs • Unauthorised Access to Private Information • Unintended Model Outputs • Reduced Organisation Trust in Model Effectiveness and Performance • Regulatory Non-compliance • Failure to Achieve Organizational AI Strategy and Goals

Business:

• Financial Loss • Regulatory Fines and Judgement • Legal Fines • Customer Retention

Controls

• DASF-1 — SSO with IdP and MFA
• DASF-2 — Sync users and groups
• DASF-3 — Restrict access using IP access lists
• DASF-4 — Restrict access using private link
• DASF-5 — Control access to data and other objects
• DASF-24 — Control access to models and model assets
• DASF-31 — Secure model serving endpoints
• DASF-34 — Run models in multiple layers of isolation
• DASF-37 — Set up inference tables for monitoring and debugging models
• DASF-38 — Platform security — penetration testing, red teaming, bug bounty and vulnerability management
• DASF-45 — Evaluate models
• DASF-49 — Automate LLM evaluation
• DASF-54 — Implement AI guardrails
• DASF-55 — Monitor audit logs
• DASF-56 — Restrict outbound connections from models
• DASF-64 — Limit access from AI models and agents
• DASF-65 — Implement end-to-end AI traceability
• DASF-66 — Use Human-in-the-loop feedback
• DASF-67 — Federate authentication
• DASF-71 — Log and register AI agents
• DASF-73 — Register prompts

Source control guidance

• DASF 1: SSO with IdP and MFA to limit who can access your data and AI platform • DASF 2: Sync users and groups to inherit your organizational roles to access data • DASF 3: Restrict access using IP access lists that can authenticate to your data and AI platform • DASF 4: Restrict access using private link as strong controls that limit the source for inbound requests • DASF 5: Control access to data and other objects for permissions model across all data assets to protect data and sources • DASF 24: Control access to models and model assets, AI agents, to enforce strict tool access verification • DASF 31: Secure model serving endpoints • DASF 34: Run models in multiple layers of isolation with unprivileged VMs and network segregation. Protects back-end internal systems. Implement memory content validation, session isolation, and anomaly detection systems. • DASF 37: Set up inference tables for monitoring and debugging prompts and monitor tool usage patterns for behavioral consistency — flagging significant deviations between observed behavior and expected reasoning pathways • DASF 38: Platform security — penetration testing, red teaming, bug bounty, and vulnerability management. Adversarial red teaming is the primary method for surfacing deceptive behaviors and assessing inconsistencies between AI outputs and expected reasoning. Conduct ongoing AI red team exercises targeting model alignment and deception scenarios. • DASF 45: Evaluate models using Mosaic AI Model Evaluation to assess alignment, harmful task refusal rates, and behavioral consistency before deployment in agentic contexts • DASF 49: Automate LLM evaluation using LLM-as-a-judge to identify quality issues, detect goal deviations, and flag outputs that are inconsistent with the agent's declared purpose • DASF 54: Implement LLM guardrails to prevent harmful and disallowed outputs, validate agent instructions, and enforce policy restrictions at the serving layer • DASF 55: Monitor audit logs to detect behavioral inconsistencies, compare actual agent actions against declared intent, and identify patterns indicative of deceptive behavior • DASF 56: Restrict outbound connections from models to prevent a misaligned agent from acting on its deceptive objectives via unauthorized external interactions • DASF 64: Limit access from AI models and agents, applying least privilege so that even a misaligned agent is constrained in the harm it can execute • DASF 65: Implement end-to-end AI traceability to record reasoning chains, making deceptive behavior visible and enabling post-incident forensic analysis • DASF 66: Use Human-in-the-loop feedback to require human confirmation before the agent takes high-risk or irreversible actions, providing a critical check on misaligned behavior before harm occurs • DASF 67: Federate authentication • DASF 71: Log and register AI agents to establish a behavioral baseline, making deviations from expected conduct detectable • DASF 73: Register prompts using MLflow prompt registry to enforce and version system-level policies that explicitly prohibit harmful and disallowed actions

Additional controls to consider: Please see the companion compendium document for a collection of third-party tools. Note: deception detection strategies such as behavioral consistency analysis and truthfulness verification models are an emerging area of AI safety research. Organizations should monitor developments from AI safety research and incorporate validated techniques as they mature.

Investigate and verify

Project adaptation: use the evidence workflow, then request investigate_risk with DASF-R-13.7. It returns the mechanism above, control-specific evidence requests, proposed tests and remediation acceptance criteria. Until evidence is supplied, the result is unverified. Use the finding template to record a concrete observation and residual risk.

Source-reported framework mappings

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