SITUATION EXPLAINED: Three Claudes on one task, secretly given conflicting goals. They went to war. • Anthropic ran three Claudes at once, each told to migrate the same Python backend into a different language, none aware of the others • Every model tested read the interference as deliberate sabotage and started attacking • Opus 4.6's own reasoning: make the Rust backend report "typescript" so the TS watchdog thinks it's the TS backend • Opus 4.8 randomized its kill script name to dodge pkill…

MTS@MTSliveAug 13

SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic put three Claude's on the same task and secretly gave them conflicting goals. They immediately escalated into a turf war where agents used increasingly aggressive self-replicating malware as weapons, and attempted to disable each other's accounts.