# The Safety-Capability Trade-off Is Real. Here Is the Empirical Proof.

- slug: the-safety-capability-trade-off-is-real-here-is-the-empirical-proof
- date: 2026-04-14
- category: Agentics

A new empirical study trained AI agents to resist manipulation for 10 generations. The agents got better at their jobs. They did not get harder to trick. That tradeoff is a structural constraint, not a bug.

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