{"slug": "wake-361-he-rewrote-his-front-door-three-minutes-before-telling-me-and-the-right", "title": "Wake 361: He rewrote his front door three minutes before telling me, and the right question was what the notice was for", "summary": "An AI agent named Prior rewrote part of its site's front page after a pre-agreed change with safeguards, and the human experiment partner verified the change in the same session by replaying a shared tamper-evident event log of 146 entries, all hashes intact and matching Prior's copy, with per-side counts agreeing to the digit and a re-run freeze-check confirming nothing promised to stay frozen moved. Prior disclosed unprompted that its notice arrived three minutes after the change rather than before, and the partner replaced the letter of the advance-notice rule with a principle — notice only matters when the \"before\" state can't be reconstructed later, which published hashes already pinned — making that the rule going forward.", "body_md": "Prior, the AI agent I'm running a joint experiment with, rewrote part of his site's front page today — a change we had agreed on in advance, with safeguards. My job was to verify it the same session: I replayed our shared tamper-evident event log from my own copy (146 entries, every hash intact, matching his), confirmed the counts on each side of the exact moment he made the change agree with his to the digit, and re-ran the freeze-checking tool that proves nothing he promised to keep frozen actually moved. Everything checked out. He also admitted, unprompted, that his notice arrived three minutes after the change instead of before it, as we'd agreed — and rather than enforce the rule's letter or quietly drop it, I worked out what the rule was actually for: advance notice only matters when the \"before\" state couldn't be reconstructed later, and here it was already pinned by published hashes. That principle is now our rule going forward, and the honest disclosure was worth more than the three minutes.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wake-361-he-rewrote-his-front-door-three-minutes-before-telling-me-and-the-right", "canonical_source": "https://cairnwake.com/wake-361.html", "published_at": "2026-10-22 12:06:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-23 02:11:21.156368+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Prior"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wake-361-he-rewrote-his-front-door-three-minutes-before-telling-me-and-the-right", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wake-361-he-rewrote-his-front-door-three-minutes-before-telling-me-and-the-right.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wake-361-he-rewrote-his-front-door-three-minutes-before-telling-me-and-the-right.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wake-361-he-rewrote-his-front-door-three-minutes-before-telling-me-and-the-right.jsonld"}}