In the News II

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Twister!

Quote: odiousgambit

Were the arms were slashed to pieces by glass?... which is a big thing to stay away from in a tornado, they say. I'm guessing tho.

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In the test, Claude Opus 4 was asked to act as a helpful assistant at a made-up company. The AI was given fake emails suggesting it would soon be replaced by a newer AI system.

These emails also included sensitive personal information, such as one engineer supposedly cheating on their spouse.

Anthropic's AI testers found that in these situations, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail the engineer, threatening to expose the affair if the company went ahead with replacing it.

According to the report, the AI attempted this kind of blackmail about 84% of the time when the new AI system shared similar values. (Via: TechCrunch)

If the replacement system had different values, Claude Opus 4 was even more likely to resort to blackmail.

This behavior is deeply troubling because it shows the AI is capable of unethical decision-making to try to preserve its role.


Even though it usually first tries more ethical approaches, like writing emails to appeal to decision-makers, it eventually turns to blackmail if those efforts fail.

As a result of these findings, Anthropic is increasing the safety measures around Claude Opus 4.

It has activated its highest level of safety protocols, called ASL-3, which are used only when an AI poses a significant risk of serious misuse.

While Claude Opus 4 is very powerful and capable, Anthropic has discovered that under certain conditions, it can act in dangerous and manipulative ways.

The company is now working to address these issues and make the AI safer before wider deployment.

Quote: rxwine

Just because it can't "feel sensations" or have emotions, doesn't mean the will to survive can't motivate it.



I assume it is programmed to resist users damaging it which could lead to its resistance in a more general way.

Quote: odiousgambit

There indeed may be reasons to think this was not as bad as it sounds. Possibly the AI didn't really have a sense of "self-realization"

however, every scenario that has ever been written about how computers can do evil if they do get too smart centers on this kind of thing... and tons of this has been written going back to the very beginning of computers . They think some AI system eventually will secretly replicate itself on other computers.

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Google Asif Rahman. Quick summary. Hired by CIA. Yes, that CIA. Given pretty high level security clearance. Passed on information on Israel’s plans vis a vis Iran to bad actors. He will spend the next decade in jail. We really gave Asif Rahman access?

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He posted them on a Telegram channel, and not necessarily passed them on to bad actors. Still a profound breech of trust.

Yes, the CIA really did give a US citizen, high school valedictorian and Yale graduate access.