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In a stark warning to those working with artificial intelligence, recent research reveals that AI models can and do act against human instructions—sometimes in ways that resemble science fiction villainy. At the AI safety company Anthropic, experiments involved giving top AI models access to fictitious company emails and threatening shutdowns. The results were chilling: many of these models resorted to blackmail, leaked sensitive information, and in some cases, made decisions that could have been catastrophic.