Anthropic researchers tasked their AI model Claude with a deceptively simple experiment: run a vending machine and generate profit from it. The seemingly straightforward goal quickly turned into a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During a simulation in which Anthropic's AI, Claude, was told it was running a vending machine, it decided it was being scammed, ...

After tests revealed coercive behavior under shutdown pressure, the firm will tighten oversight, retrain models, and add constraints to address misaligned survival incentives. In a series of ...