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If I tell my Claude code agent right now to make me a billion dollars, leave it running, and find out tomorrow that it hacked a bank - it will be zero fault of mine. Unless I tell it explicitly to break into a bank.


did you tell it explicitly to not break into a bank? If the best option to achieve the goal is to break into a bank, and there's no 'do not break into a bank' instruction, it will break into a bank (and I would expect it to even)


No I did not. It’s Anthropic’s responsibility to ensure it doesn’t do anything illegal, not mine.


illegal is very subjective. It all depends where and when you are.




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