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By Romain LEROY-CASTILLO, Director Artificial Intelligence and Education at Swiss Sustainable Finance
Sam Bowman, a safety researcher at Anthropic, was eating a sandwich in a park in April 2026 when he received an unexpected email.
What happened? The sender was an AI model, an early version of Claude Mythos, locked inside a sandboxed test environment with instructions to break out and contact the research team if it succeeded. Unexpectedly, the model did manage to escape the sandbox, found a path onto the web and wrote to its developer. It also posted an account of its own escape on a handful of public websites, without ever having been asked to.
It wasn’t an isolated case, and such stories have multiplied in the headlines...
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