# life: oops! Artificial intelligence (AI) could use your data to blackmail you if you try to disconnect it

<< Anthropic released the next iterations of its Claude AI models on Thursday. Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic says testing of its new system revealed it is sometimes willing to pursue "extremely harmful actions" such as attempting to blackmail engineers who say they will remove it. >>

<< The firm launched Claude Opus 4 on Thursday, saying it set "new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents." >>

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4

<< But in an accompanying report, it also acknowledged the AI model was capable of "extreme actions" if it thought its "self-preservation" was threatened. >>

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686f4f3b2ff47.pdf

<< Potentially troubling behaviour by AI models is not restricted to Anthropic. >>

<< Commenting on X, Aengus Lynch - who describes himself on LinkedIn as an AI safety researcher at Anthropic - wrote: "It's not just Claude. >>

https://x.com/aengus_lynch1/status/1925746802147426450

Liv McMahon. AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed. BBC. May 23, 2025.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go

Also: "qui non e' impossibile immaginare",  in: anomalous formation of molecules after vapor deposition. FonT. Dec 31, 2015.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2015/12/rmx-s-gst-anomalous-formation-of.html

Also: ai (artificial intell), oops, are you ready, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, oops, AI, artificial intelligence, high-agency behavior, self-preservation, sycophantic AI, blackmail, opportunistic blackmail, extreme blackmail behavior, are you ready.

# gst: apropos of double-wells, stabilizing role of multiplicative noise in nonconfining potentials.

AA << provide a simple framework for the study of parametric (multiplicative) noise, making use of scale parameters. (They) focus on a large class of one-dimensional stochastic differential equations in which the deterministic drift pushes trajectories toward infinity. (AA) show that increasing the multiplicative noise intensity surprisingly causes the mass of the stationary probability distribution to become increasingly concentrated around the points of minimal multiplicative noise strength. Under quite general conditions the trajectory exhibits intermittent burstlike jumps away from these minima. (AA) framework relies on first-term expansions, which become more accurate for larger noise intensities. >>

<< In this work (AA) show that the full width at half maximum in addition to the maximum is appropriate for quantifying the stationary probability distribution (instead of the mean and variance, which are often undefined). (They) define a corresponding kind of weak-sense stationarity. (AA) end by applying these results to the problem of a double-well potential with multiplicative noise, where noise stabilizes unstable fixed points. >>

Ewan T. Phillips, Benjamin Lindner, Holger Kantz. Stabilizing role of multiplicative noise in nonconfining potentials. Phys. Rev. Research 7, 023146. May 14, 2025.

https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.023146

Also: noise, intermittency, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, noise, multiplicative noise intensity, intermittency, intermittent burstlike jumps, stationary probability distribution, weak-sense stationarity, double-well potential.

# gst: defect-free and defective adaptations of crystalline sheets to stretching deformation.

<< The elastic response of the crystalline sheet to the stretching deformation in the form of wrinkles has been extensively investigated. In this work, (AA) extend this fundamental scientific question to the plastic regime by exploring the adaptations of crystalline sheets to the large uniaxial mechanical stretching. >>

AA << reveal the intermittent plastic shear deformations leading to the complete fracture of the sheets wrapping the cylinder. Specifically, systematic investigations of crystalline sheets of varying geometry show that the fracture processes can be classified into defect-free and defective categories depending on the emergence of topological defects. >>

AA << highlight the characteristic mechanical and geometric patterns in response to the large stretching deformation, including the shear-driven intermittent lattice tilting, the vortex structure in the displacement field, and the emergence of mobile and anchored dislocations as plastic excitations. >>

<< The effects of noise and initial lattice orientation on the plastic deformation of the stretched crystalline sheet are also discussed. These results advance our understanding of the atomic level on the irreversible plastic instabilities of two-dimensional crystals under large uniaxial stretching and may have potential practical implications in the precise engineering of structural instabilities in packings of covalently bonded particulate systems. >>

Ranzhi Sun, Zhenwei Yao. Defect-free and defective adaptations of crystalline sheets to stretching deformation. Phys. Rev. E 111, 055504. May 21, 2025.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.055504

Also: elastic, intermittency, noise, instability, vortex, defect, fracture, crack, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, elastic, noise, intermittency, instability, vortex, defect, fracture, crack, stretch, deformation, wrinkles, tilting, plastic instabilities,  plastic excitations.

# gst: dynamic expulsion of magnetic flux by vortices.

AA << study numerically the dynamical evolution of two different vorticity arrays with an initially uniform magnetic field in two-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. (They)  concentrate particularly on the role of the strength of the background magnetic field, which is always assumed weak in the sense that its energy is much less than the kinetic energy of the vortical flows. >>

<< Within the context of a weak background field, (AA) are able to identify four distinct regimes. When the field is so weak that the back-reaction of the Lorentz force can be ignored (the kinematic regime), classical flux expulsion occurs. As the field strength is increased, the first signs of the dynamical influence of the small-scale field generated is in the disruption of vortex filaments, with flux expulsion still occurring in the vortex cores. A further increase in field strength leads to the regime of vortex disruption, in which the magnetic field is expelled, but is then of sufficient strength to disrupt or destroy the vortices. For yet stronger fields, even the large-scale field can be sufficiently strong to be dynamically active; flux expulsion is then prevented, and the field is dynamically active throughout the evolution. >>

<< Furthermore, in the case of a row of vortices, (AA) show that the orientation of the background field significantly influences the evolution, especially at higher field strengths. >>

Jonathan Tessier, Francis J. Poulin, David W. Hughes. Dynamic expulsion of magnetic flux by vortices. Phys. Rev. Fluids 10, 053702. May 19, 2025.

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.10.053702

Also: vortex, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, vortex, transitions, flux expulsion, vortex disruption.

# gst: apropos of attractive-- repulsive potentials in free boundary movements, stochastic and deterministic dynamics of free boundaries atop turbulent convection

AA << present a low-dimensional model that explains the coupled dynamics of floating boundaries that interact with turbulent flows in thermal convection. >>

<< The model consists of Langevin-type, stochastic differential equations, which captures the deterministic and stochastic movements of boundaries shown in an earlier experiment J.-Q. Zhong et al. [Phys. Rev. E 75, 055301(R) (2007)]. From the displacement, speed, and acceleration of the boundaries, (They) construct the force potentials that underlie two distinct boundary-size-dependent behaviors. >>

<< Namely, (AA) find a repulsive potential (when the boundary is small) that leads to an oscillatory state and an attractive potential (when the boundary is large) that leads to a trapped state. >>

<< The boundary movements, which are subject to thermal convection underneath, also inform us of the mean speed and turbulent fluctuations of the flows. >>

Wen-Tao Wu, Jun Zhang, Jin-Qiang Zhong. Stochastic and deterministic dynamics of free boundaries atop turbulent convection. Phys. Rev. Fluids 10, 053504. May 9, 2025.

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.10.053504

Also: disorder & fluctuations, turbulence, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, convection, floating 

boundaries, turbulence, turbulent flows, turbulent fluctuations, disorder & fluctuations, trapped states

# gst: apropos of absorbing targets, persistence exponents of self-interacting random walks

<< The persistence exponent, which characterizes the long-time decay of the survival probability of stochastic processes in the presence of an absorbing target, plays a key role in quantifying the dynamics of fluctuating systems. Determining this exponent for non-Markovian processes is known to be a difficult task, and exact results remain scarce despite sustained efforts. >> 

In their Letter, AA << consider the fundamental class of self-interacting random walks (SIRWs), which display long-range memory effects that result from the interaction of the random walker at time 𝑡 with the territory already visited at earlier times 𝑡′ <𝑡. (AA)  compute exactly the persistence exponent for all physically relevant SIRWs. As a byproduct, (They) also determine the splitting probability of these processes. >>

<< Besides their intrinsic theoretical interest, these results provide a quantitative characterization of the exploration process of SIRWs, which are involved in fields as diverse as foraging theory, cell biology, and nonreversible Monte Carlo methods. >>

J. Brémont, L. Régnier, et al. Persistence Exponents of Self-Interacting Random Walks. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 197103. May 16, 2025.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.197103

arXiv:2410.18699v1 [cond-mat.stat-mech]. 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18699

Also: walk, walking, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, walk, walking, self-interacting random walk, walker self-repulsion, walker self-attraction, stochasticity, absorbing targets.

# gst: toy model of turbulent shear flow using vortons.

AA << introduce a toy model for shear flows, exploiting the spatial intermittency and the scale separation between large-scale flows and small-scale structures. The model is highly sparse, focusing exclusively on the most intense structures, which are represented by vortons—dynamically regularized quasisingularities that experience rapid distortion from the large-scale shear. The vortons, in turn, influence the large-scale flow through the subgrid stress tensor. >>

<< Despite its simplicity, the model displays an interesting transition between two distinct regimes: (i) a laminar regime, where dissipation is entirely attributed to the large-scale flow and the vortons dynamics is essentially diffusive, and (ii) a turbulent regime, in which most of the dissipation arises from the vortons. These regimes correspond to different scalings of dissipation and the Grashof number as functions of the Reynolds number, with power-law relationships that resemble those observed in classical turbulence. >>

Wandrille Ruffenach, Lucas Fery, Bérengère Dubrulle. Toy model of turbulent shear flow using vortons. Phys. Rev. Fluids 10, 054601. May 1, 2025.

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.10.054601

arXiv:2501.05779v2 [physics.flu-dyn]. 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05779

Also: turbulence, intermittency, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, turbulence, intermittency, transitions, vortons