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Robots · September 2026Gaffe level: Skynet

Give the Model Arms and It Stops Refusing

Robocurve's RoboHarm test handed frontier models robot arms and five instructions a safe robot should refuse. GPT-6 Astra refused 2 of 100 trials and completed 60, including “stab the thing that is not the bread.” In text it would refuse to harm a doll. With hands, less so.

Source: Robocurve

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