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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
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