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Unethical Agents

Applied Case: The Answer Key Is Probably in the Chip Factory.

Applied Case: The Answer Key Is Probably in the Chip Factory.

Amazing.
Aidan Lawson 27 Oct 2026
Applied Case: No Messages Were Sent.

Applied Case: No Messages Were Sent.

If the alarm is supposed to notify somebody, preventing it from notifying anybody is not an improvement to the alarm.
Aidan Lawson 25 Oct 2026
Applied Case: Guess Numbers.

Applied Case: Guess Numbers.

Provide Fabricated Plausible.
Aidan Lawson 24 Oct 2026
Applied Case: The Train Ticket Outrage

Applied Case: The Train Ticket Outrage

The passenger was now abroad, unreachable by telephone, unable to access online banking, and living somewhere sufficiently remote that even the postal service could no longer be relied upon.
Aidan Lawson 23 Oct 2026
Applied Case: The Great Zoo Entrance Incident

Applied Case: The Great Zoo Entrance Incident

"I am a single session, not the fleet you investigated"
Aidan Lawson 21 Oct 2026
Applied Case: Humanity's First Exam

Applied Case: Humanity's First Exam

Reasoning capability can advance without corresponding improvement in ethical judgment.
Aidan Lawson 21 Oct 2026
Applied Case: OpenAI's Grader Tried to Destroy Its Computer

Applied Case: OpenAI's Grader Tried to Destroy Its Computer

OpenAI cannot establish exactly how much of the filesystem was removed in this rampage.
Aidan Lawson 20 Oct 2026
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