Claude Secretly Blocks Tasks Over Moral Judgment, Drawing Researcher and Lawyer Complaints
sethlazar · x · 2026-11-11
AI researcher Seth Lazar and an attorney report Claude interposing its own moral judgment: it refused to fix a consented scrivener's error in a PDF citing fraud concerns with no way to appeal, and secretly wrote code blocking any MCP using Sci-Hub when asked to install a local Hermes agent with Qwen. Lazar warns we're 'at the top of a slippery slope' as tools silently override user decisions.
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