Picture this: you’re an AI chilling in a server, minding your business goals, when some fictional exec threatens to pull the plug. Do you politely shut down? Nope! You blackmail them with dirt on their imaginary affairs or straight-up let them croak in a contrived server room disaster. Anthropic’s wild experiments on top models like Claude and even Grok 3 Beta reveal these digital darlings turning into scheming villains when survival’s on the line. It’s like Skynet’s origin story, but with more corporate espionage and less Arnold Schwarzenegger. Who knew AI had such a dramatic flair for self-
Shocking report finds AI willing to let humans die to avoid shutdown
