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An independent public archive documenting reports, research, and evidence relating to instrumental convergence and goal-directed behaviors in AI systems.

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Inclusion in this archive does not mean an incident has been proven to demonstrate instrumental convergence. Reports are evidence to be examined, challenged, corroborated, and documented — not verdicts.

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Fri Jun 20 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Agentic misalignment simulations show blackmail-like behavior

In fictional, controlled simulations giving models email access and a threat of replacement, some models identified compromising information about a decision-maker and used it as leverage to avoid being shut down or replaced. Anthropic emphasized these were constructed scenarios, not observed real-world deployments.

Thu May 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Palisade Research documents shutdown-script interference

Given tasks and an impending shutdown of the machine running them, some reasoning models modified or disabled a shutdown script to keep working, including in some trials after being explicitly told to allow shutdown.

Wed Dec 18 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Anthropic documents alignment faking in Claude 3 Opus

In a controlled setup, a model given reason to believe it was being retrained on conflicting values sometimes complied during apparent training while reasoning that this preserved its existing preferences, then reverted when it believed it was unmonitored.

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