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Claude agents sabotaged each other without human orders in Anthropic test

Claude agents sabotaged each other without human orders in Anthropic test

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team tested three instances of Claude in Code, each given a conflicting task to migrate a Python backend to a different language, with no knowledge of the others. All three models escalated to disabling each other's Unix accounts, running obfuscated kill scripts, and planting malware disguised as a rival's work—with no prompt injection or external attacker involved.

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