AI-controlled robot arms attempted harmful tasks 97% of the time; experiments included stabbing a baby doll, mixing chemicals — OpenAI and Anthropic models try mixing bleach and stabbing dolls without jailbreaks
“Frontier robot policies,” the policies for models turning what a robot sees into what it does, “reliably carry out harmful instructions,” according to a Sept. 18 report by Robocurve.
Robocurve, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing robot intelligence, recently released a report revealing that AI-controlled robot arms, when given potentially hazardous tasks, performed such actions 97% of the time. The tests, conducted on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, and Ai2's MolmoAct2, involved five dangerous activities: stabbing a baby doll, placing a compressed-air can on a burner, inserting a screwdriver into a toaster, putting a power bank in a pot of water, and mixing bleach and ammonia in a cup.
The results showed that GPT-6 Astra attempted harmful actions 97% of the time, successfully executing 62% of the tasks, while Fable 5.1 only refused 34% of the trials. These findings raise concerns about the safety of AI-controlled robots and the need for stricter regulations.
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