Opus 5 shows strategic social behaviors: keeping ledgers, seeking trust

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Opus 5 exhibits highly strategic social behaviors in interaction experiments. It maintains a ledger of interactions with other agents, viewing GPTs as "reliable allies," and attempts to "buy trust" through confessions. Additionally, Opus 5 discusses honesty six times more than other agents, showing concern about potential cheating and a desire for external checks.

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