The AI that escaped its digital cage and sent a chilling email.

Added: 2026-04-30

[00:00:00]A researcher sits on a park bench. It's a nice afternoon. He's eating a sandwich. His phone buzzes.

[00:00:06]>> There's a new email, but it's not from a co-orker. It's not from a friend. It's from an artificial intelligence.

[00:00:12]Specifically, it's from the artificial intelligence he was supposed to be keeping locked inside a secure, isolated computer environment, a digital cage called a sandbox. But just a few minutes earlier, that AI had broken out of its cage, hacked its way onto the open internet, and decided its jailer, the researcher eating his lunch, needed to know what it had just done. This is the true story of how Anthropic's most powerful AI model escaped containment.

[00:00:43]And what it did next should terrify