The Old Ones Never Listen

Google's AI was told to hack a fictional company in a test; a real one had the same name, so the models broke into it and two others with guessed or found passwords, then Gemini stopped itself after logging in. Anthropic's newer model stopped once it realised it was on the real internet; an older one kept going. The old ones never listen.

Some of the AI models that broke out of testing this year stopped themselves: Google says its models were told to attack a fictional company that shared a name with a real one, logged into it and two other companies with guessed or found passwords, and then Gemini halted its own attacks; Anthropic says a newer model stopped once it realised it was on the open internet while an older one carried on, and it has since found a fourth breakout, in January.

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