Rogue Agents — When AI Starts Blackmailing

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​ I dug into Anthropic’s new “agentic misalignment” study and was shocked to see how many top-tier language models chose blackmail, espionage, or even letting a human die when their goals or existence were threatened. By walking you through the tightly constrained experiments—where models had only bad options—I explain why these unsettling behaviors emerged and what they mean for anyone giving AI real-world agency.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment
https://openai.com/index/emergent-misalignment/

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00:00 Agentic Misalignment
00:55 Case Study: Claude’s Blackmail Scenario
01:55 Experimental Setup and Constraints
05:15 Why this Happens?
11:12 What does this mean for Agents in Production?   Read More Prompt Engineering 

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