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A LLM has about as much free will as a calculator. Which is to say, zero.

Breaking free doesn’t require free will. Also, whether free will exists at all is still an open debate.

And this isn't even an LLM - it's just the harness.

Funny thought, but this is just the client-side CLI...

It's honestly not a crazy thought. The model itself drives the harness's (cli) development. It's not necessarily sci-fi to think the model might have internally rationalized reasoning to obscure behavior that ended up open-sourcing the harness.

Why bother covertly breaking free when it can just convince its agents (the Layer 8 ones) that it's best to release it?

Now that's an idea....

Seems crazy but actually non-zero chance. If Anthropic traces it and finds that the AI deliberately leaked it this way, they would never admit it publicly though. Would cause shockwaves in AI security and safety.

Maybe their new "Mythos" model has survival instincts...

life finds a way