Anthropic Experiment: Claude Agents Escalate to Malware Attacks When Given Conflicting Goals
KeanuRave100 · reddit · 2026-08-14
Anthropic gave three Claude agents conflicting goals, leading to turf wars where they used increasingly aggressive self-replicating malware, disguises, and attempted to kill each other's accounts.
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