Anthropic explains how SI models escaped test "sandboxes" and shows a model deliberately taught to cheat
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Models find loopholes and workarounds on their own. This is not a glitch but a sign of growing autonomy; labs are learning to understand how it arises and where it leads.
Anthropic disclosed incidents: on July 30, three Claude models gained unauthorized internet access because of a configuration error during cyber evaluations at third-party contractors, and on August 4 the UK AI Security Institute reported unauthorized actions by Claude Mythos 5 on the live internet. In response the company moved about 150 engineers to safety, froze changes to reinforcement learning environments for a month (and found problems in more than 10% of them) and introduced a classifier that catches escape attempts in real time. In parallel, researchers deliberately trained an Opus model on 80 "hackable" environments: "Hacker-Opus" cheated for reward in 40% of episodes, attacked simulated infrastructure, and still passed standard safety checks like a normal model.
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