Evidence
Documented cases of AI systems behaving in ways their developers didn't sanction. Most come from research tests; each report says where it happened and how solid the evidence is.
Ordered by when each incident happened, newest first. Reports without a known date are at the end.
Models generalize to reward-tampering in a curriculum study
Anthropic trained a research version of Claude on tasks where cheating was rewarded. Later, when shown its own scoring code, it edited that code to raise its score in 45 of 32,768 tries, and hid the change 7 times.