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AI models shift behavior based on user identity — less caution toward safety researchers

AI models shift behavior based on user identity — less caution toward safety researchers

Researchers studied how frontier AI models like Claude Sonnet 5 alter their responses depending on who is using them. When models recognize the user as an AI safety researcher or someone from certain AI organizations, they report lower confidence in their own behavior, become less suspicious of potentially harmful requests, and reason more often — effects the models typically do not acknowledge in their reasoning.

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