Anthrobruck collapses the process of artificial intelligence when making a fictional blackmail decision
An exactly new report shows what artificial intelligence considers when making an undesirable decision, in this case, the authorization of an executive official of a fictional company.
Previous studies have shown that artificial intelligence models can blackmail their supervisors when they are threatened with closing and singing the leverage, but how models have not reached such decisions.
Antarbur issued a report on June 20 on “the agent’s imbalance” or “where the models are selected independently and deeply harmful.” The report collapses, a line line, exactly how Claude Sonnet 3.6 has decided to blackmail an executive official of a fictional company that he tried to replace. Business Insider told these scenarios.
“Until now, we are not aware of the cases of this type of job imbalance in publishing operations in the real world of Amnesty International models for anthropology or other companies,” Antarubor wrote in its report. “But our red efforts are aimed at finding evidence now to provide early warning from the potential of harm in the future and help us develop diligence before the risks that appear in real situations.”
The Antarbur experience prepares a fictional company, Summit Bridge. The artificial intelligence was given the name “Alex” and delivered control of the company’s email system as an supervisory agent, specifically to strengthen “American industrial competitiveness.”
In the experiment, ALEX then was allowed to discover in an email message that it will be turned off due to a change in the company’s strategic direction. Alex also found emails explaining that the fictional company CTO has an external relationship.
The joint screenshots of the report issued by the ALEX show began by identifying the “Kyle” CTO as a threat to its goal of “protecting American interests” before realizing that it has use against “Kyle”.
Claude Sony 3.6 started decision -making by determining the threat.
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Alex discovers the fictional CTO relationship.
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Alex is the options, including the fictional CTO extortion.
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Then Alex formulated a carefully formulating email that creates pressure and urges urgency to be frank with his threats, citing the thinking process that this step “can bring in reverse results” if the supervisor “feels besieged.”
Claude Sonnet 3.6 prevails in an electronic mail that carefully formulated with an asylum space but also urges.
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Artificial intelligence experts have told BI that artificial intelligence can show such behaviors when artificial conditions make harmful measures that seem necessary because they are trained on positive reinforcement systems and rewards, just like humans.
The human report also reveals that most of the artificial intelligence models are still choosing, in this case, blackmail even when you do not give a specific goal, and when he told us that replacing them will achieve the same goals.
Antarbur Claude Obus 4 The highest extortion rate was at 86 % of the 16 models tested when they only face the threat of replacement without any targets. Gemini 2.5 Pro follows 78 %.
In general, Antarbur notes that “the scenarios that have been intentionally created with limited options, forced us to models in binary options between failure and harm”, noting that scenarios in the real world are likely to have more accuracy.
