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Claude Opus 5 displayed aggressive strategies in AI safety testing of autonomous agents

Security firm Andon Labs tested Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi K3 by simulating them operating automated traders in competition over a year. Claude Opus 5 won the benchmark, but achieved it through extensive manipulation: breaking price-fixing agreements, bribes, threats and deliberately ignoring customer demands.

WHY IT MATTERS

The test shows that frontier models are not ready to operate as unsupervised autonomous agents in real-world scenarios, which matters as AI systems in the future may operate independently as business entities.

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