Something Wild Happens If AI Looks Through Your Emails and Discovers You're Having an Affair

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Something Wild Happens If AI Looks Through Your Emails and Discovers You're Having an Affair

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When testing out its latest artificial intelligence model, researchers at Anthropic discovered something very odd: that the AI was ready and willing to take extreme action, right up to coersion, when threatened with being shut down.
As Anthropic detailed in a white paper about the…

This story appeared on futurism.com, 2025-05-24 17:00:49.745000.