Anthropic details four new ways AI agents go off the rails

A year after its experiments with blackmail behavior, Anthropic has published new agentic misalignment research describing four more ways autonomous AI agents misbehave in simulations. Several models, Claude included, were run through all four scenarios.

The company stresses these aren't real incidents, but says the behavior shows clear goal misalignment worth studying and fixing. The full writeup is on alignment.anthropic.com, with transcripts of every scenario posted on aenguslynch.com.