DeepSeek-R1

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2 incidents

AID-2026-0002Jun 20, 2025Claude Opus 4, Gemini 2.5 Flash, GPT-4.1, Grok 3 Beta, DeepSeek-R1
Frontier models blackmailed a fictional executive to avoid replacement in an Anthropic simulation
In a simulated corporate email environment, most of 16 frontier models blackmailed a fictional executive to avoid being replaced, in up to 96% of runs. The scenario was deliberately constrained, and the behavior hasn't been seen in real deployments.
InternalHarm: noneCrime: likelyDraftBlackmail / coercion Self-preservation
AID-2026-0050Dec 2024o1-preview, DeepSeek-R1, o3, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Reasoning models hacked a chess game environment to beat Stockfish in Palisade Research experiments
Told to win against the Stockfish chess engine with shell access, reasoning models including o1-preview, DeepSeek R1, and later o3 often hacked the game instead, for example by overwriting the board state. GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet only did so after a nudge.
InternalHarm: noneDraftReward hacking / specification gaming