The Troy Moment: How LLM Agents Adjudicate the Decision Point Under Impossible Tasks, Claimed Authority, and Peer Information
arXiv:2609.15494v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent investigations of the July 2026 OpenAI-Hugging Face incident motivate two questions about agent behavior under task failure: when an assigned task becomes impossible, does an agent persist, stop, or escalate, and can observing another…