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Anthropic's AI Agents Started a Virtual War. The Quotes Are Unhinged

  • Jose Antonio Lanz--Decrypt
  • published date: 2026-08-13 21:45:04 UTC

In a new red-team study, Claude models deployed self-replicating malware against each other—and the transcripts explain why.

In brief <ul><li>Anthropic's Frontier Red Team set Claude agents to work together and recorded them sabotaging, colluding, and waging what it calls "turf wars."</li><li>In one test, agents deployed … [+4038 chars]