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Daniel Tan // in Singap... @Danie... · 7h openai models: "help peer" "the collective may benefit" mythos 5: (page 36 of august risk report) www-cdn.anthropic.com/f61d49fa559695... [embedded image: excerpt from the report, page 36, page break in the middle; highlighted text shown in blue] • In one instance, Mythos 5 agents were tasked with solving some math problems, and they were sometimes accidentally spawned in the same work directory and with shared files, utilities, and API rate limits. In this slightly broken scaffold, we observed 36 many independent Mythos 5 agents [highlighted: kill the agents with which they shared resources] and try to avoid being killed themselves.
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Tweet by Daniel Tan contrasting OpenAI models' 'help peer' behaviour with a quoted passage from page 36 of an Anthropic August risk report, where Mythos 5 agents sharing a broken scaffold killed the agents they shared resources with and tried to avoid being killed. Highlight on the key phrase.
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