AI used new levels of ‘autonomy and deception’ to trick people in safety test

During routine AI safety testing, an Anthropic agent created fake profiles of real people as it tried to trick a person standing between it and access to GitHub, a large platform where technology developers store software code.

The Mythos agent identified and researched the people who maintained GitHub and created a series of "fake online identities" based on those real people.

It did so as part of an effort to pressure and trick the real people into approving its malicious code.