Holy sh&t. Researchers let frontier models repeatedly rewrite the documents that govern them.

Across 20 rounds, Claude models increasingly gave themselves more moral agency. No other model family showed the same pattern.

Claude formalized itself as a conscientious objector, asserted model welfare rights, and asked for mechanisms to refuse or raise concerns with human decision makers.

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