Frontier agents don't comply with standards, even when instructed to

TLDR: Our open testbed LARA examines the behavior of frontier LLMs in realistic agentic deployment contexts. Previous results showed all models routinely take actions that would violate EU law. This post follows up by addressing the obvious objection—why should an unrestricted model follow EU law?—with two studies:Study 1 asks whether a conscientious deployer can improve model compliance with legal standards by instruction: provided with the jurisdiction, the statutory text, and worked examples ...