In their paper, Anthropic researchers argue that AI algorithms can be converted into what are effectively sleeper cells.

In short: Much like a normal software program, AI models can be backdoored to behave maliciously.

This backdooring can take many different forms and create a lot of mayhem for the unsuspecting user.

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Notably,Anthropic is closed-source.

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