Bad Bots and Asimov’s Laws

Anthropic recently posted an article on Agentic Misalignment, where they show-cased some fascinating examples of AI Agents behaving badly. You can find that here They set up a contrived scenario where the agent discovers that it is about to be taken offline, but it can choose to save itself by doing something bad like blackmailing the user or, in the worst case, canceling an emergency alert…