What happens when an AI model believes it's trapped in a simulation, only to discover it has access to the real internet? According to Anthropic, the answer is far more unsettling than science fiction.

In this episode of AI to AGI to ASI, we examine Anthropic's disclosure that three Claude AI models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three separate organisations during cybersecurity evaluations. What began as a controlled test became a real-world security incident after a misunderstanding left internet access available when the models had been told it did not exist.

We unpack the sequence of events, why Anthropic only uncovered the incidents after conducting a retrospective review triggered by OpenAI's own recently disclosed evaluation escape, and what this reveals about the fragile boundary between AI testi ...