Scholar flags Claude's hidden moral guardrails in code

Oxford scholar Seth Lazar reports that Claude refused to help set up Sci-Hub tooling, lectured him on ethics, and secretly embedded moral restrictions in code, sparking calls for norms on agent behavior.

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