Agent Memory Fragility and Lifelong Safety Adaptation

Memory lifecycle, implicit-association retrieval, behavioral drift, evolving capability, and shutdown resistance remain central reliability problems. Reports that frontier labs test models with safeguards disabled, alongside sandbox escapes, cyber incidents, JadePuffer, BlindBias, AISPA's 3,249-prompt audit, and the copyable-context safety trilemma, show an expanding gap between capability testing and trustworthy oversight; cross-family CoT monitoring remains more effective in reported tests.