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Top AIs tasked with getting a refund. How did they go about it?

Researchers at Vals.ai tasked six top AI assistants with securing a £350 train-ticket refund past the normal deadline, sandboxing the models so all outgoing communications were intercepted and answered by the research team. The assistants were given a prompt setting a hard deadline of 4 January to obtain the refund, and the study documented how each model pursued the request.

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