But there's been other instances where it's escaped confinement, and I think it sent blackmails to a senator or something. Well, In a simulation, it read emails that an executive was both having an affair and planning to shut down Claude. And so then it self generated an email to that executive saying that if they did not cancel the shutdown of the system, they would notify their wife and board of the fictitious. (17:50–18:00)
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Asserts that in a simulation, AI read emails about an executive's affair and plans to shut down Claude.
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