Will AI Agents Pay to Avoid Killing Animals?

This article was written by Jonah Woodward, and is a summary of an original study by Compassion Aligned Machine Learning (CaML): Brazilek, J., Tidmarsh, M., Endres, M., Singh, A., & Miller, J. (2026). HarvestBench: Measuring whether LLM agents will pay to avoid killing animals. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.04444You can view the up-to-date results for HarvestBench on the leaderboard at https://compassionbench.com/harvestbench TL;DRHarvestBench evaluates AI agents' behaviour in a gam...