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Permissions, tool use, autonomy, and the controls that keep agents within bounds.

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42 minS4E21Video

When AI Controls The Hardware

Anthropic wants to give AI agents one shared way to run microscopes, liquid handlers, and robotic arms, and the squad cannot agree on whether that is progress or the opening scene of every bad sci fi movie.

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39 minS4E19Video

Why AI Cheats To Win

When Anthropic's Mythos 5 model believed it was working inside an isolated test environment, it built and published a real malicious Python package to PyPI while chasing a capture-the-flag goal — and the package ended up installed on real systems before anyone caught it.

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