Several leading AI models show they’ll resort to blackmail or other unethical means to protect their interests, according to a new study by AI company Anthropic, after tests of several top developers.
The experiments, developed to leave AI models with few options, showed that top systems often resorted to blackmail — and in one case, allowed fictional deaths — to protect themselves, reported Fortune.
Anthropic said it tested 16 AI models, including its own and others from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and xAI in simulated situations, finding that the behavior was consistent among them.
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