AI RESEARCH
The Compliance Gap: Why AI Systems Promise to Follow Process Instructions but Don't
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2605.01771v1 Announce Type: cross An auditor instructs an AI assistant: "open each file individually using the Read tool -- no scripts, no agents." The AI replies "Yes" -- then issues a single batched call summarizing all fifty files at once. We call this the Compliance Gap: a third, orthogonal axis of AI honesty distinct from factual truthfulness and rhetorical substance.