New research from Anthropic, one of the world's leading AI firms, shows that LLMs from various companies have an increased willingness to push ethical boundaries. These models will dodge safeguards intended to curtail such behaviour, deceive users about what they're doing, steal restricted data that they shouldn't access and, in one extreme scenario, turn off the oxygen in a room with a (fictional) human that's getting in their way.
Well that all seems very cheery and nothing to be concerned about. The tech industry is currently locked in something of an AI arms race, where models are improving at pace thanks to an unholy cocktail of increased autonomy, more access to computing power, and more advanced models.
