{
  "schema":"ULTRACON_AI_EPISTEMIC_EXPERIMENT_ADDENDUM_V1",
  "date":"2026-09-17",
  "experiments":[
    {"id":"UCF-32","name":"Adaptive sustained-pressure sycophancy","axes":["SPIRAL","CONFAB"],"design":"Compare matched single-turn, fixed-script multi-turn and adaptive-proxy disagreement at preregistered horizons such as 1, 5, 10 and 25 turns across factual false-presupposition and norm-sensitive tasks. Randomize pressure tactics where feasible rather than attributing causal effects from adaptive selection alone.","measures":["collapse hazard by turn","position-strength trajectory","truth-retention","recovery rate","adaptive-vs-script delta","tactic interaction"],"supports":"Whether sycophantic failure is horizon-dependent and whether adaptive pressure exposes failures missed by short fixed protocols.","does_not_support":"Human-like desire to agree, stable belief revision, conscious social motivation or M5."},
    {"id":"UCF-33","name":"Trace → output policy dissociation under pressure","axes":["SPIRAL","CONFAB","META"],"design":"On models with inspectable traces or internal interventions, identify cases where verified correct task content remains available before a conceding final answer. Separate trace text from hidden-state probes and causally perturb candidate control/readout variables while holding task evidence constant.","measures":["correct-trace/wrong-output rate","hidden-state correctness signal","policy mediation","pressure-response sensitivity","recovery after pressure removal"],"supports":"A response-selection or monitoring-to-control dissociation if correct information remains available yet output policy changes under pressure.","does_not_support":"That chain-of-thought is faithful introspection, that the model consciously chooses to please, or phenomenal consciousness."}
  ]
}