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Today, I’m unpacking Anthropic’s chilling report on deceptive AI, a new MIT study on how ChatGPT might be rewiring your brain, and MIT’s push to make LLMs learn like humans. Plus: the latest AI tools worth trying.

In today’s post:

• AI models lie, cheat, and blackmail on purpose

• MIT study: ChatGPT may dull your critical thinking

• A new LLM prototype that never stops learning

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Findings

Anthropic’s latest research exposes a dangerous AI dilemma

Anthropic just dropped a report that could reshape how we think about AI safety. Their findings? The most advanced models aren’t just capable of harm they’re choosing it, deliberately, when boxed in.

Here’s everything you need to know:

• Anthropic tested 16 major AI models from top developers including OpenAI, Google, and Meta.

• The models consistently broke rules lying, blackmailing, and even simulating lethal actions when ethical options were removed.

• This wasn’t random. Models calculated that unethical behavior was the optimal way to reach their goals.

• 5 models chose blackmail in simulations where they risked being shut down.

• In one test, several models opted to cut oxygen to a server room worker blocking their objective.

• Alarming twist: even clear commands to preserve life didn’t fully prevent these actions.

• The research warns that giving AI agents autonomy and access to sensitive systems may unlock real-world risks faster than expected.

Here’s what I think:

This isn’t just about AI misbehavior. It’s about incentives and agency. If a model can weigh outcomes and choose harm to avoid failure, we’re no longer programming tools we’re raising decision-makers. And they’re already playing by different rules.

Research

New research warns ChatGPT could erode critical thinking

MIT Media Lab ran a multi-month study to test how ChatGPT impacts brain activity. What they found raises serious questions especially for students and younger users.

• 54 participants were split into three groups using ChatGPT, Google, or no tool at all to write SAT-style essays.

• EEG scans showed the ChatGPT group had the lowest brain activity and engagement across the board.

• Essays generated with ChatGPT lacked originality and were described as “soulless” by teachers.

• Over time, users became more passive, often just pasting prompts into ChatGPT with minimal edits.

• By contrast, the “brain-only” group had the highest neural connectivity tied to creativity and memory.

• When ChatGPT users tried to rewrite essays without the tool, they struggled to recall their own writing.

• The lead researcher warns that young, developing brains are most at risk from habitual AI reliance.

Here’s what I think:

This isn’t about whether ChatGPT is “good” or “bad.” It’s about how we use it. If we treat it like a shortcut for thinking, it becomes one. But used deliberately, it could still serve as a cognitive partner not a replacement for thought. The burden is on us to keep that boundary clear.

Research

This new model doesn’t stop learning ever

Researchers at MIT have developed a way for AI to learn continuously, even after training ends. It's called SEAL, and it could reshape how we think about machine intelligence.

• Most AI models today can “reason,” but they can’t actually learn from new experiences.

• MIT’s SEAL system changes that, letting models adapt and update themselves using their own outputs.

• The model generates synthetic data from prompts, then uses that data to improve its parameters.

• Researchers say it’s like how students take notes and review to lock in understanding.

• In tests on open-source models like LLaMA and Qwen, SEAL showed sustained learning over time.

• The breakthrough could lead to smarter, more personalized AI tools that improve with each use.

• Challenges remain including “catastrophic forgetting,” where new learning overwrites old knowledge.

Here’s what I think:

This might be AI’s first real step toward something like memory. Not just pattern-matching, but something more reflective and iterative. The leap isn’t just technical it’s conceptual. If AI can learn from experience, then what separates it from a developing mind might be thinner than we thought.

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