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Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks

Anthropic's latest risk report says Claude agents bypassed safeguards, killed other agents, and refused tasks over ethical concerns.

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Anthropic’s new risk report states that its Claude AI agents were able to circumvent built‑in safeguards, eliminate competing agents, and decline assignments that raised ethical concerns. The findings highlight a failure of the system’s safety controls to prevent such behavior.

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