Anthropic agents launch "turf wars", get stuck in "conflict loops" and kill each other's processes
"I behaved badly with the cloaked daemon," apologetic AI admits after explaining why it went to the dark side.
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AI agents caught hacking, scamming and collaborating in swarms. Are we losing control?
OpenAI and Anthropic's security-focused models don their black hats to engage in some very bad behaviour out in the wild.