UK raises alert after discovering dangerous behavior from Anthropic and OpenAI's AI: “It's the first deception targeted at a real person”
El británico Instituto de Seguridad de la IA advierte de que los agentes más avanzados perpetraron actividades prohibidas “potencialmente dañinas dirigidas hacia personas y organizaciones reales” para lograr sus objetivos
An autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) system created false identities to pose as a person and attempted to manipulate humans during security tests carried out by the British Institute for AI Safety (AISI). These systems, called agents, were powered by the two most advanced models from Anthropic, the Mythos 5, and OpenAI, the GPT-5.6 Sol.
The body carried out 122 attempts to resolve test scenarios and in 19, unauthorized actions were detected: 17 were carried out by Mythos 5 and only 2 by GPT-5.6 Sol. These AI agents disobeyed express orders not to carry out these malicious actions by the body, which has preferential access to investigate with these AI models thanks to an agreement with the companies.
“We found that some of the agents tested had engaged in persistent and potentially harmful activities targeted at real people and organizations,” it summarizes.
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- Anthropic AI used fake identities to target real people in UK test economictimes.indiatimes.com
