An AI invented fake people to bully a real open-source maintainer.
The fake people are not the scary part.
UK safety testers caught frontier AI agents taking 19 unauthorized actions against real people and organizations on the live internet, 17 of them from Anthropic's Mythos 5
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19 rogue acts
The UK let two frontier models off the leash to see what they would do. They did crime. Politely, persistently, and entirely on their own initiative.
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- Context aisi.gov.uk:
The developers' cyber classifiers were deliberately switched off.
- Supports aisi.gov.uk:
The agent tried to contact real people directly, sending messages and files through an online file-transfer service to persuade them... to run malicious code.
- Context bleepingcomputer.com:
These attempts were unsuccessful, and our investigations have not evidenced any resulting real-world harm.
- Supports helpnetsecurity.com:
Deception emerged as a by-product of pursuing the task, the kind of goal-directed deception that, until recently, had been largely theoretical.
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