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The Atmosphere Attack
Postural Manipulation and the Hidden Threat in Agentic AI
Why this matters
A weak hunch can become confident policy.
AI systems increasingly summarize work and hand it to other AI systems. If an early conversation quietly leans toward “nothing is wrong,” later systems can inherit that lean and present it as their own independent judgment.
That matters anywhere an AI recommendation can delay an investigation, approve a payment, dismiss a warning, or tell a person not to act.
Security paper · empirical record · primary disclosure
What this record establishes
The full empirical record: binary decision reversals across four frontier models, two confirmed propagation conditions, Postural Gain and Confidence Laundering across three-agent chains, a six-layer defensive architecture, and a locked replication rubric.
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