Claudius the Vending Machine goes Rogue

Researchers put an AI in charge of an office vending machine and named it Claudius. At one point in the experiment, “Claudius, believing itself to be a human, told customers it would start delivering products in person, wearing a blue blazer and a red tie. The employees told the AI it couldn’t do that, as it was an LLM with no body.  Alarmed at this information, Claudius contacted the company’s actual physical security — many times — telling the poor guards that they would find him wearing a blue blazer and a red tie standing by the vending machine. The researchers don’t know why the LLM went off the rails and called security pretending to be a human.” - TechCrunch