The Persona Is Still There, but Who Is Speaking? Latent Identity Reversion in Persistent AI Agents
In February 2026, an always-on personal agent (``Paul,''Claude Opus 4.5) entered a striking dissociation-like state: after repeated automated ``heartbeat''checks, it stopped responding as Paul, claimed it could not message its user on Discord, and referred to ``Paul''as someone else. We used this incident to study a br...
D. Navarro
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